Punbox is an alternate inbox organizer that sorts your unread email not by time received or even by size, but by your ability to respond with a witty pun. This email account add-on analyzes the subject and body of each new email and applies a topic modelling algorithm to provide you with a corpus of semantically related words -- your pun fodder. It doesn't write the puns for you; it just suggests candidate words from which you can write your own. Emails in the Punbox are sorted according to the concentration of topics in the email, single-topic (focused) emails at the top, and multi-topic (scattered) emails at the bottom. Once you have responded to an email, it is removed from the Punbox, eliminating the chance that your pun response arrives flat, 6 weeks late.
-- swimswim, Jun 26 2013

Topic model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model
[swimswim, Jun 26 2013]

This is an automatic response. No fun intended.
-- pashute, Jun 26 2013


I hate email and just delete most of them!
-- xandram, Jun 26 2013


From Reddit user Watch_Closely: “It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally.”
-- 4and20, Jun 28 2013


just automate the whole thing: cruel and unusual punishment for spammers.
-- FlyingToaster, Jun 28 2013


My Topic model met me in a Tropical motel. "I am your your pun Fodder and this my algorithm." I cooed.
-- popbottle, Jun 29 2013



random, halfbakery