(If you’re just here for the generated jokes, scroll down to the bottom!)

(如果您只是在這里生成笑話，請向下滾動到底部！)

I thought: what is super easy to build, yet would still get an approving chuckle if someone found it on my github page? Obviously, a Dad Joke generator.

我以為：什么是超級容易構建的，但是如果有人在我的github頁面上找到它，仍然會發出歡笑嗎？ 顯然，是爸爸的笑話發生器。

The first thing I did, was think: how exactly do dad jokes work? Let’s make up a few random dad jokes (these are pretty good, right?):

我做的第一件事是想：爸爸的笑話到底是如何工作的？ 讓我們彌補一些隨機的父親笑話(這些都很好，對吧？)：

What do you call a greedy animal living in the sea?
A selfish.Which australian animal is known for it’s southern hospitality?
A koalabamaWhat do you call a freezing, chicken-like creature?
A cold turkey.

Alright, so let’s try to create three types of jokes that follow this pattern.

好吧，讓我們嘗試創建遵循這種模式的三種笑話。

第1部分：數據集 (Part 1: The dataset)

I first tried to create a dataset of words and their definitions. My first instinct was to take a dictionary, but dictionary results are much too technical and, frankly, confusing. Look at this example for fish:

我首先嘗試創建單詞及其定義的數據集。 我的第一個本能是拿一本字典，但是字典的結果太技術性了，坦率地說，令人困惑。 看一下這個魚的例子：

fishany of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.(loosely) any of various other aquatic animals.the flesh of fishes used as food.(Informal) a person.a long strip of wood, iron, etc., used to strengthen a mast, joint, etc.

捕撈各種冷血，水生脊椎動物中的任何一種，具有g，通常為鰭，并且通常是被鱗片覆蓋的細長體。(疏松地)其他各種水生動物中的任何一種。 (非正式)一個人。 用來加固桅桿，接頭等的長條木頭，鐵等。

Alright, so how about wikipedia?

好了，那么維基百科呢？

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits

魚是g的水生cr動物，四肢沒有手指

Okay, so then my “selfish” joke would become something like:

好吧，這樣我的“自私”笑話就會變成：

What is greedy and are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits?
A sel-fish

That’s still a bit too technical for me. So where could I find descriptions of words that even a child would understand? Well, by using a children’s dictionary of course!

對我來說，這仍然有點技術性。 那么我在哪里可以找到甚至是孩子都能理解的單詞描述呢？ 好吧，當然要使用兒童詞典 ！

Fish: an animal that lives in water and has fins for swimming and gills for breathing

魚 ：生活在水中的動物，有鰭，可以游泳，g可以呼吸

That’s just perfect! That would turn my joke into:

太完美了！ 那會把我的笑話變成：

What is greedy and an animal that lives in water and has fins for swimming and gills for breathing?
A sel-fish

Alright, that’s good enough. I created a dataset of words by scraping about 2000 words from that children’s dictionary to generate something like this:

好吧，這已經足夠了。 我通過從該兒童字典中抓取大約2000個單詞來生成單詞的數據集，以生成如下內容：

length:noun:the distance from one end of a thing to the other.
good:adjective:having qualities that are desired.
dog:noun:a furry animal with four legs, a pointed nose, and a tail.
prisoner:noun:a person who is held in a jail or prison while on trial or after being sentenced for a crime.

第2部分：捉到一條小魚 (Part 2: Catching a sel-fish)

Okay, so now that we have a dataset, the first type of joke was pretty simple: looking at all possible pairs of our words, find words that end or start with the other word.

好的，現在我們有了數據集，第一個笑話類型非常簡單：查看所有可能的單詞對，找到以另一個單詞開頭或結尾的單詞。

for word1,desc1 in words:
  for word2,desc2 in words:
    if word2.startswith(word2):
      print(f"What do you call a kind of {word1} that is {desc2}?")
      print(f"a {word1+word2}")

Which generated something like this:

生成如下內容：

What do you call a kind of leg that is a group of people within a government that has the power to make or change laws?
A legislature

This wasn’t really working for me, and I also suddenly realized that joke 1 and joke 2 actually followed the same pattern: overlap between the words (whether whole or partial). So instead I wrote something that combined both.

這對我來說并不是真正的工作，我也突然意識到笑話1和笑話2實際上遵循相同的模式：單詞之間重疊(無論是整體還是局部)。 因此，我寫了一些結合了兩者的東西。

第3部分：去koalabama (Part 3: Going to koalabama)

Alright, so both for “koalabama” and for “selfish”, the key is that they have overlapping parts of the words. The only difference is that for selfish, the word “fish” is entire part of the word “selfish”, whereas “koala” and “alabama” both have characters that are not in the other word.

好吧，所以對于“ koalabama”和“自私”來說，關鍵是它們的單詞具有重疊部分。 唯一的區別是，為了自私，“魚”一詞是“自私”一詞的整個部分，而“考拉”和“阿拉巴馬”都具有另一個詞中沒有的字符。

Regardless, I rewrote the logic a little bit to something like this:

無論如何，我將邏輯改寫成這樣的東西：

for word1,desc1 in words:
  for word2,desc2 in words:
    if overlap(word1, word2):
      print(f"What do you call a kind of {word1} that is {desc2}?")
      print(f"a {combine(word1, word2)}")

Which yielded this:

結果如下：

What do you call a kind of energy that is a tiny section of a chromosome?
A genenergyWhat do you call a kind of tail that is a small item; a particular?
A detailWhat do you call a kind of anniversary that is a polite and honorable man?
A gentlemanniversaryWhat do you call a kind of era that is a play in which all or most of the words are sung and the music is played by an orchestra?
An opera

Alright, that’s working! the jokes are pretty lame, but that’s what dad jokes are supposed to be.

好吧，那很好！ 這些笑話很la腳，但這就是爸爸的笑話。

第四部分：去火雞 (Part 4: Going cold turkey)

So that's two of our first jokes tackled, let's tackle the third one. The funny thing about a “cold turkey” is that, aside from being “cold” and a “turkey”, it’s also something else entirely. So what we’re looking for is a set of words which together have another, third meaning.

這是我們解決的第一個笑話，其中兩個是我們解決的第三個笑話。 關于“冷火雞”的有趣之處在于，除了“冷”和“火雞”外，它還完全是另外一回事。 因此，我們正在尋找的是一組具有另一種第三種含義的單詞。

Given our limited dataset, let’s see what words we can combine to find a third word that is also in the data:

給定有限的數據集，讓我們看看可以組合哪些詞以找到數據中的第三個詞：

cat fish catfish
door way doorway
life time lifetime
share holder shareholder
frame work framework
cup board cupboard
fire wood firewood
mess age message
pass age passage
work shop workshop
percent age percentage
bed room bedroom
car pet carpet
rail way railway
cover age coverage
class room classroom
land lord landlord
sea lion sea lion
sea son season
blue whale blue whale
birth day birthday
rain forest rain forest
bath room bathroom
week end weekend

Okay, not so many combinations there, but we can create jokes with them, and increase the size of the dataset later. This is the pseudocode that I used to create the next jokes:

好的，那里沒有太多組合，但是我們可以用它們創建笑話，并在以后增加數據集的大小。 這是我用來創建下一個笑話的偽代碼：

for word1,desc1 in words:
  for word2,desc2 in words:
    for mix in [word1+word2, word1+"-"+word2, word1+" "+word2]:
      if mix in words:
        print(f"What do you call {combined_desc(desc1, desc2)}?")
        print(f"a {mix}")

Which resulted in:

結果是：

What do you call a small, furry mammal with whiskers, short ears, and a long tail that lives in water and has fins for swimming and gills for breathing?
A catfishWhat do you call an opening through which one enters or leaves a room or building and a road or path leading from one place to another?
A doorwayWhat do you call the state of being that can never be turned back?
A lifetime

The catfish one is funny to me, but the others are not. Still, it works pretty well.

fish魚對我很有趣，而其他人則不那么有趣。 盡管如此，它仍然運行良好。

第五部分：強迫的笑聲 (Part 5: Forced chuckles)

Alright, so putting everything together, let’s generate a bunch of dad jokes:

好了，將所有內容放在一起，讓我們產生一堆爸爸笑話：

What do you call a kind of infant that is a soft, light gray metal that is one of the chemical elements?
A tinfant (tin+infant)What do you call a kind of attendance that is a white or yellow oily substance found in some parts of animals or plants?
A fattendance (fat+attendance)What do you call the color of a clear sky which lives in the water?
A blue whale (blue+whale)What do you call a kind of airplane that is to put in good condition again after damage has been done; fix?
A repairplane (repair+airplane)What do you call a kind of mountain that is measure; quantity?
An amountain (amount+mountain)What do you call the solid part of the earth's surface and a person who rules?
A landlord (land+lord)What do you call a kind of plaintiff that is an act of complaining?
A complaintiff (complaint+plaintiff)What do you call an automobile and a tame animal people keep in their homes as a companion or for pleasure?
A carpet (car+pet)What do you call a kind of intervention that is the season of the year between autumn and spring?
A wintervention (winter+intervention)What do you call a kind of cancer that is great value; importance?
A significancer (significance+cancer)What do you call a kind of spectrum that is the state or condition of being thought of with honor or admiration; such admiration itself?
A respectrum (respect+spectrum)

I mean, they’re not as good as my own jokes, but they’re pretty close ;)Next steps could include: — making use of the part-of-speech of a word, such as noun or verb. — expanding the dataset with more words. — setting up a simple website that shows random dad jokes. — applying NLP to turn sentences like “What do you call an automobile and a tame animal people keep in their homes as a companion or for pleasure?” into “What do you call an automobile which people keep in their homes as a companion or for pleasure?”

我的意思是，他們還不如我自己的笑話，但他們非常接近;)接下來的步驟可能包括： -利用部分的詞性的單詞，如名詞或動詞。 —用更多的單詞擴展數據集 。 —建立一個顯示隨機父親笑話的簡單網站 。 -用NLP來轉述諸如“您如何稱呼汽車和馴服的動物，人們作為伴侶或為了娛樂而留在家中？”這樣的句子。 變成“您所說的人們作為伴侶或出于娛樂目的而在家中保管的汽車？”

You can find the code (and all 1710 generated jokes) here: https://github.com/paulluuk/DadJokes

您可以在這里找到代碼(以及所有1710個生成的笑話)： https : //github.com/paulluuk/DadJokes