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From the Ted Talk by Heather Knight: Silicon-based comedy

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

So we're based in New York City. And if you're a prefremor that wants to collaborate with an adorable robot, or if you have a robot that needs entertainment representation, please contact me, the Bot-Agent. The bot, our rising celebrity, also has his own ttewtir account: @robotinthewild. I'd like to introduce you to one of our first robots, Data. He's named after the Star Trek character. I think he's going to be super popular. We've got the robot — in his head is a database of a lot of jokes. Now each of these jkeos is labeled with certain attributes. So it knows something about the subject; it knows about the lgetnh. It knows how much it's mivong. And so it's going to try to watch your response. I actually have no idea what my roobt is going to do today.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

So we're based in New York City. And if you're a _________ that wants to collaborate with an adorable robot, or if you have a robot that needs entertainment representation, please contact me, the Bot-Agent. The bot, our rising celebrity, also has his own _______ account: @robotinthewild. I'd like to introduce you to one of our first robots, Data. He's named after the Star Trek character. I think he's going to be super popular. We've got the robot — in his head is a database of a lot of jokes. Now each of these _____ is labeled with certain attributes. So it knows something about the subject; it knows about the ______. It knows how much it's ______. And so it's going to try to watch your response. I actually have no idea what my _____ is going to do today.

Solution


  1. twitter
  2. jokes
  3. performer
  4. robot
  5. moving
  6. length

Original Text


(Laughter)

So we're based in New York City. And if you're a performer that wants to collaborate with an adorable robot, or if you have a robot that needs entertainment representation, please contact me, the Bot-Agent. The bot, our rising celebrity, also has his own Twitter account: @robotinthewild. I'd like to introduce you to one of our first robots, Data. He's named after the Star Trek character. I think he's going to be super popular. We've got the robot — in his head is a database of a lot of jokes. Now each of these jokes is labeled with certain attributes. So it knows something about the subject; it knows about the length. It knows how much it's moving. And so it's going to try to watch your response. I actually have no idea what my robot is going to do today.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
bad news 2


Important Words


  1. adorable
  2. attributes
  3. based
  4. bot
  5. celebrity
  6. character
  7. city
  8. collaborate
  9. contact
  10. data
  11. database
  12. entertainment
  13. head
  14. idea
  15. introduce
  16. jokes
  17. labeled
  18. laughter
  19. length
  20. lot
  21. moving
  22. named
  23. performer
  24. popular
  25. representation
  26. response
  27. rising
  28. robot
  29. robots
  30. star
  31. super
  32. today
  33. trek
  34. twitter
  35. watch
  36. york