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Wit is a form of rich interaction that is often grounded in a specific situation (e.g., a comment in response to an event). In this work, we attempt to build computational models that can produce witty descriptions for a given image.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Arjun Chandrasekaran , Devi Parikh , Mohit Bansal

Humor is a unique and creative communicative behavior displayed during social interactions. It is produced in a multimodal manner, through the usage of words (text), gestures (vision) and prosodic cues (acoustic). Understanding humor from…

Despite the recent advances of the artificial intelligence, building social intelligence remains a challenge. Among social signals, laughter is one of the distinctive expressions that occurs during social interactions between humans. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Lee Hyun , Kim Sung-Bin , Seungju Han , Youngjae Yu , Tae-Hyun Oh

Humor is a defining characteristic of human beings. Our goal is to develop methods that automatically detect humorous statements and rank them on a continuous scale. In this paper we report on results using a Language Model approach, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Xinru Yan , Ted Pedersen

Humor recognition has been widely studied as a text classification problem using data-driven approaches. However, most existing work does not examine the actual joke mechanism to understand humor. We break down any joke into two distinct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yubo Xie , Junze Li , Pearl Pu

Prerecorded laughter accompanying dialog in comedy TV shows encourages the audience to laugh by clearly marking humorous moments in the show. We present an approach for automatically detecting humor in the Friends TV show using multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Khalid Alnajjar , Mika Hämäläinen , Jörg Tiedemann , Jorma Laaksonen , Mikko Kurimo

Automated news generation has become a major interest for new agencies in the past. Oftentimes headlines for such automatically generated news articles are unimaginative as they have been generated with ready-made templates. We present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Khalid Alnajjar , Mika Hämäläinen

Humor is a magnetic component in everyday human interactions and communications. Computationally modeling humor enables NLP systems to entertain and engage with users. We investigate the effectiveness of prompting, a new transfer learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junze Li , Mengjie Zhao , Yubo Xie , Antonis Maronikolakis , Pearl Pu , Hinrich Schütze

Understanding satire and humor is a challenging task for even current Vision-Language models. In this paper, we propose the challenging tasks of Satirical Image Detection (detecting whether an image is satirical), Understanding (generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Abhilash Nandy , Yash Agarwal , Ashish Patwa , Millon Madhur Das , Aman Bansal , Ankit Raj , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

In this position paper, we review the eclectic recent history of academic and artistic works involving computational systems for humor generation, and focus specifically on live performance. We make the case that AI comedy should be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Piotr Wojciech Mirowski , Boyd Branch , Kory Wallace Mathewson

Humor is an inherently social phenomenon, with humorous utterances shaped by what is socially and culturally accepted. Understanding humor is an important NLP challenge, with many applications to human-computer interactions. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Dan Ofer , Dafna Shahaf

Humor is an important social phenomenon, serving complex social and psychological functions. However, despite being studied for millennia humor is computationally not well understood, often considered an AI-complete problem. In this work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Chen Shani , Nadav Borenstein , Dafna Shahaf

As AI companions become capable of human-like communication, including telling jokes, understanding how people cognitively and emotionally respond to AI humor becomes increasingly important. This study used electroencephalography (EEG) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xiaohui Rao , Hanlin Wu , Zhenguang G. Cai

Jokes are intentionally written to be funny, but not all jokes are created the same. Some jokes may be fit for a classroom of kindergarteners, but others are best reserved for a more mature audience. While recent work has shown impressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Leonard Tang , Alexander Cai , Steve Li , Jason Wang

Chatbots are increasingly applied to domains previously reserved for human actors. One such domain is comedy, whereby both the general public working with ChatGPT and research-based LLM-systems have tried their hands on making humor. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xuehan Huang , Canwen Wang , Yifei Hao , Daijin Yang , Ray LC

Automatically understanding funny moments (i.e., the moments that make people laugh) when watching comedy is challenging, as they relate to various features, such as body language, dialogues and culture. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Zhi-Song Liu , Robin Courant , Vicky Kalogeiton

Humor and Offense are highly subjective due to multiple word senses, cultural knowledge, and pragmatic competence. Hence, accurately detecting humorous and offensive texts has several compelling use cases in Recommendation Systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Aishwarya Gupta , Avik Pal , Bholeshwar Khurana , Lakshay Tyagi , Ashutosh Modi

Laughter serves as a multifaceted communicative signal in human interaction, yet its identification within dialogue presents a significant challenge for conversational AI systems. This study addresses this challenge by annotating laughable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Koji Inoue , Mikey Elmers , Divesh Lala , Tatsuya Kawahara

Computational Humour (CH) has attracted the interest of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics communities. Creating datasets for automatic measurement of humour quotient is difficult due to multiple possible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Anirudh Mittal , Pranav Jeevan , Prerak Gandhi , Diptesh Kanojia , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Recent multimodal large language models have shown promising ability in generating humorous captions for images, yet they still lack stable control over explicit cultural context, making it difficult to jointly maintain image relevance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Run Xu , Lu Li , Rongzhao Zhang , Jie Xu