"That's what she said": New software recognizes pervy double entendres

The software actually sounds pretty tricky to write–it’s a natural language analyzer, sort of like a more specific and not so terrifying version of IBM’s Watson. Created by Chloé Kiddon and Yuriy Brun of the University of Washington (make sure to read their report if you want to see an NBC sitcom properly cited in an academic work), the system is named DEviaNT, which stands for Double Entendre via Noun Structure–a bit of a stretch, but we’ve seen worse.

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