Teaching computers how to smile and make a funny comment March 11, 2021 IIIT - Hyderbad logo - Website/IIIT-Hyderabad× Researchers at IIIT-H study how laughter helped people cope with the pandemic Computers can sift through large volumes of data, analyse it and come out with actionable insights. But what it lacks is a funny bone. Though efforts are on by computational researchers across the world to make computers understand humour, not much research is happening in Indian languages. Researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Hyderabad) are working on a project, classifying humour and letting the computers understand it and generate humour. To begin with, they working on Hindi and Telugu texts.