Successful Master's defence

Anna Palmann, a student in the Middle European Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Cognitive Science (MEi:CogSci) at the University of Vienna, has successfully defended her Master's thesis, "What's in a Pun? Assessing the Relationship Between Phonological and Semantic Distance and Perceived Funniness of Punning Jokes".

Ms. Palmann was co-supervised by Dr. Tristan Miller, project leader of the Computational Pun-derstanding project at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI).