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Christian F. Hempelmann is currently the Chief Scientific Officer at hakia, Inc., an Internet search engine. He is also active in the academic research of humor and publishes frequently in HUMOR, the journal of the International Society of Humor Studies.
Biography
Christian F. Hempelmann was born as a human baby in 1972 and received his Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from Purdue University working with Victor Raskin. His fields of specialization are Ontological Semantics and humor research. Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and logical modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. ...
Purdue University (Purdue) is a land-grant, public university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. ...
Victor Raskin, (April 17, 1944 – ), is a full professor of linguistics at Purdue University and a member of the advisory board of hakia. ...
In both computer science and information science, an ontology is a data model that represents a domain and is used to reason about the objects in that domain and the relations between them. ...
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His work includes an analysis of the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, the linguistic structure of punning, and a much-cited article on Christian humor. The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ...
A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech, or word play which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words within a phrase or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. ...
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In his work in information security he has coauthered with Mikhail Atallah and has an Erdös number of 3, via Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr.. The ErdÅ‘s number, honouring the late Hungarian mathematician Paul ErdÅ‘s, one of the most prolific writers of mathematical papers, is a way of describing the collaborative distance, in regard to mathematical papers, between an author and ErdÅ‘s. ...
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Education 2003, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics at Purdue University. Dissertation “Paronomasic Puns: Target Recoverability towards Automatic Generation” Dissertation committee: Victor Raskin (chair), Salvatore Attardo, Shaun Hughes, Mary Niepokuj, Sergei Nirenburg Primary area: computational linguistics (ontological semantics, NLP for information security); secondary areas: linguistic humor studies, theoretical linguistics, and historical linguistics Purdue University (Purdue) is a land-grant, public university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. ...
2000, specialization in TESOL, Youngstown State University. Thesis: “Incongruity and Resolution of Humorous Narratives-Linguistic Humor Theory and the Medieval Bawdry of Rabelais, Boccaccio, and Chaucer” supervised by Salvatore Attardo Youngstown State University, founded in 1908, is an accredited university located in Youngstown, Ohio. ...
- M.A. in English Linguistics, secondary area Religious Studies
1998, [Magister Artium der Englischen Sprachwissenschaft, Zweitfach Religionswissenschaft; includes and supersedes the bachelor degree], Universität Hannover, additional areas: Mathematics, German literature, Thesis: “Linguistic Approaches to Humor: The General Theory of Verbal Humor in Performance” supervised by Rainer Schulze 1991, [a degree above high school, with 2 years of specialization] major in mathematics, Ancient Greek, and German literature, Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gymnasium, Hannover, Germany Alternate meanings: Hanover (district), Hanover (region), Hanover (state), other uses Map of Germany showing Hanover Hanover (in German: Hannover [haˈnoːfɐ]), on the Leine river, is the capital of the state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) in Germany. ...
Experience Chief Scientific Officer, hakia Inc., New York, New York Supervision and implementation of all natural language aspects for search engine development and operation, in particular computational ontological semantics; recruitment, training, and supervision of international teams for various languages. Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Linguistics in the Department of Writing and Linguistics of Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia On Forest Drive looking between the College of Education and the Nursing building towards the College of Information Technology. ...
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Coh-Metrix project at the Institute for Intelligent Systems of the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee The University of Memphis is a public American research university located in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The University was founded under the auspices of the General Education Bill, enacted by the Tennessee Legislature in 1909. ...
Graduate Research Assistant in various NLP projects at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, member of various research groups and supervisor of undergraduate and graduate researchers Graduate Teaching Assistant in the English Department of Purdue University: taught introductory composition and linguistics courses Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant in the English Department of Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio: taught introductory composition and linguistics courses; created the camera-ready copy for Brown, Steven and Salvatore Attardo. Understanding Language - Structure, Interaction, and Variation. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P. 2000 Editor, Translator, and IT Supervisor for the international quarterly Textileforum published by Textilwerkstatt-Verlag, European Textile Network, Hannover, Germany
References - Atallah, Mikhail J.; Victor Raskin, Christian F. Hempelmann, Mercan Karahan, Radu Sion, Umut Topkara, Katrina E. Triezenberg (September 2002). "Natural language watermarking and tamperproofing". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Proc. 5th International Information Hiding Workshop. (Access to the full text may be restricted.)
- Hempelmann, Christian F. (March 2003). "99 nuns giggle, 1 nun gasps:” The not-all-that-Christian natural class of Christian jokes". HUMOR - Journal of the International Association for Humor Studies 16 (1): 1–31. (Access to the full text may be restricted.)
- Hempelmann, Christian F. (September 2004). "Script opposition and logical mechanism in punning". HUMOR - Journal of the International Association for Humor Studies 17 (4): 381–392. (Access to the full text may be restricted.)
- Hempelmann, Christian F. (March 2007). "The Laughter of the 1962 Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic". HUMOR - Journal of the International Association for Humor Studies 20 (1): 49–71. (Access to the full text may be restricted.)
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