You know, I think a machine capable of recognizing puns would be very close to some measure of real intelligence. This thought was instigated by some friends t

You know, I think a machine capable of recognizing puns would be very close to some measure of real intelligence. This thought was instigated by some friends talking about some animals. "There was a herd of them?" "Yea, I heard them. Ayyy!" A machine recognizing puns must be able to recognize auditory similarity, while recognizing that their meaning is related in some undefined way while being distinct words.