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Waller, A., Black, R., O’Mara, D.A., Pain, H., Ritchie, G., Manurung, R. (2009) Evaluating the STANDUP Pun Generating Software with Children with Cerebral Palsy. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) Volume 1, Issue 3 (February 2009) Article No. 16. Copy on publisher's site

Manurung, R., Ritchie, G., Pain, H., Waller, A., O'Mara, D., Black, R. (2008) The construction of a pun generator for language skills development. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 22(9) pp. 841-869. (PDF copy)
Manurung, R., Ritchie, G., Pain, H., Waller, A., O'Mara, D., Black, R. (2008) Adding phonetic similarity data to a lexical database. Language Resources and Evaluation 42 (3), pp.319-324. (PDF copy) (Copy on publisher's site)

Ritchie, G., Manurung, R., Pain, H., Waller, A., Black, R. and O'Mara, D. (2007) A practical application of computational humour. Pp. 91-98 in Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Creativity, ed. Amilcar Cardoso and Geraint A. Wiggins. London. (PDF)
Black, R., Waller, A., Ritchie, G., Pain, H., Manurung, R. (2007) Evaluation of Joke-Creation Software with Children with Complex Communication Needs. Communication Matters 21 (1), pp. 23-28.

Manurung, R., Ritchie, G., O’Mara,D., Waller, A., Pain, H. (2006) Combining lexical resources for an interactive language tool. In Proceedings of ISAAC 2006, the 12th Biennial International Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CD), Düsseldorf, Germany, 29 July - 5 August 2006. (PDF).
O’Mara,D., Waller, A., Manurung, R., Ritchie, G., Pain, H., Black, R. (2006) Designing and evaluating joke-building software for AAC users. In Proceedings of ISAAC 2006, the 12th Biennial International Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CD), Düsseldorf, Germany, 29 July - 5 August 2006. (PDF).
Manurung, R., O’Mara,D., Pain, H. Ritchie, G., Waller, A., (2006) Building a lexical database for an interactive joke-generator. In Proceedings of LREC 2006, the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (CD), Genoa, Italy, 24-26 May 2006. (PDF). Poster downloadable here.
Ritchie, G., Manurung, R., Pain, H., Waller, A., O’Mara,D. (2006) The STANDUP Interactive Riddle Builder. IEEE Intelligent Systems 21 (2), March/April. Pp. 67-69. (PDF)

Waller, A., O'Mara, D., Manurung, R., Pain, H., and Ritchie, G. (2005) Facilitating user feedback in the design of a novel joke generation system for people with severe communication impairment. In Proceedings of HCII 2005 (CD), Vol.5, G. Salvendy (Ed). Lawrence Erlbaum, NJ, USA. (PDF).

O'Mara, D., Waller, A., Manurung, R., Ritchie, G., Pain, H. (2004) I say, I say, I say... Australian Group on Severe Communication Impairment News. Vol. 23,2. ISSN: 1443-9107
Manurung, R., Low, A., Trujillo-Dennis, L., O'Mara, D., Pain, H., Ritchie, G. and Waller, A. (2004) Interactive computer generation of jokes for language skill development. Presented at 2004 Conference of International Society for Humor Studies, Dijon, France. (PDF, RTF, TXT). Slides from presentation available here.
O'Mara, D., Waller, A., Ritchie, G., Pain, H. and Manurung, R. (2004) The role of assisted communicators as domain experts in early software design. In Proceedings of ISAAC 2004, the 11th Biennial International Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CD), Natal, Brazil, 6-10 October 2004. (PDF, RTF).

O'Mara, D., Waller, A. and Todman, J. (2004) The recognition and use of verbal humour by children with language impairment. Presented as Emerging Scholar, 2004 Conference of International Society for Humor Studies, Dijon, France. (PDF, RTF, TXT).
O'Mara, D. and Waller, A. (2003). What do you get when you cross a communication aid with a riddle? The Psychologist 16(2), pp.78-80. ISSN 0952-8229. (PDF)
Binsted, K., Pain, H. and Ritchie, G. (1997). Children's evaluation of computer-generated punning riddles. In Pragmatics and Cognition 5(2):305-354. (PDF, PS)
Binsted, K. (1996). Machine humour: An implemented model of puns. PhD thesis, University Of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. (PDF)