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Humor is a fundamental aspect of human communication and cognition, as it plays a crucial role in social engagement. Although theories about humor have evolved over centuries, there is still no agreement on a single, comprehensive humor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Victor De Marez , Thomas Winters , Ayla Rigouts Terryn

In this work, we present a new dataset for computational humor, specifically comparative humor ranking, which attempts to eschew the ubiquitous binary approach to humor detection. The dataset consists of tweets that are humorous responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Peter Potash , Alexey Romanov , Anna Rumshisky

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive natural language understanding capabilities across various text-based tasks, understanding humor has remained a persistent challenge. Humor is frequently multimodal, relying on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ashwin Baluja

Dark humor in online memes poses unique challenges due to its reliance on implicit, sensitive, and culturally contextual cues. To address the lack of resources and methods for detecting dark humor in multimodal content, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu , Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Shahid Shafi Dar , Rishi Bharat Junghare , Dhanvin Sanjay Namboodiri , Nagendra Kumar

Satire is a form of humorous critique, but it is sometimes misinterpreted by readers as legitimate news, which can lead to harmful consequences. We observe that the images used in satirical news articles often contain absurd or ridiculous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Lily Li , Or Levi , Pedram Hosseini , David A. Broniatowski

Generating humorous memes is a challenging multimodal task that moves beyond direct image-to-caption supervision. It requires a nuanced reasoning over visual content, contextual cues, and subjective humor. To bridge this gap between visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xueyan Li , Yingyi Xue , Mengjie Jiang , Qingzi Zhu , Yazhe Niu

Automatically extracting engaging and high-quality humorous scenes from cinematic titles is pivotal for creating captivating video previews and snackable content, boosting user engagement on streaming platforms. Long-form cinematic titles,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Sibendu Paul , Haotian Jiang , Caren Chen

Understanding the 3D world from 2D images involves more than detection and segmentation of the objects within the scene. It also includes the interpretation of the structure and arrangement of the scene elements. Such understanding is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Or Nachmias , Ohad Fried , Ariel Shamir

The generation of humor is an under-explored and challenging problem. Previous works mainly utilize templates or replace phrases to generate humor. However, few works focus on freer forms and the background knowledge of humor. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Hang Zhang , Dayiheng Liu , Jiancheng Lv , Cheng Luo

For the purpose of automatically evaluating speakers' humor usage, we build a presentation corpus containing humorous utterances based on TED talks. Compared to previous data resources supporting humor recognition research, ours has several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Lei Chen , Chong MIn Lee

Understanding human actions is a key problem in computer vision. However, recognizing actions is only the first step of understanding what a person is doing. In this paper, we introduce the problem of predicting why a person has performed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Carl Vondrick , Deniz Oktay , Hamed Pirsiavash , Antonio Torralba

Humor generation is a challenging task in natural language processing due to limited resources and the quality of existing datasets. Available humor language resources often suffer from toxicity and duplication, limiting their effectiveness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Dmitry Vikhorev , Daria Galimzianova , Svetlana Gorovaia , Elizaveta Zhemchuzhina , Ivan P. Yamshchikov

Satirical news is considered to be entertainment, but it is potentially deceptive and harmful. Despite the embedded genre in the article, not everyone can recognize the satirical cues and therefore believe the news as true news. We observe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Fan Yang , Arjun Mukherjee , Eduard Dragut

Humor is a central aspect of human communication that has not been solved for artificial agents so far. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly able to capture implicit and contextual information. Especially, OpenAI's ChatGPT recently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Sophie Jentzsch , Kristian Kersting

Natural language provides a widely accessible and expressive interface for robotic agents. To understand language in complex environments, agents must reason about the full range of language inputs and their correspondence to the world.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Stephanie Zhou , Alane Suhr , Yoav Artzi

We describe a computational model of humans' ability to provide a detailed interpretation of components in a scene. Humans can identify in an image meaningful components almost everywhere, and identifying these components is an essential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Guy Ben-Yosef , Liav Assif , Daniel Harari , Shimon Ullman

AI models capable of comprehending humor hold real-world promise -- for example, enhancing engagement in human-machine interactions. To gauge and diagnose the capacity of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for humor understanding, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zhengpeng Shi , Yanpeng Zhao , Jianqun Zhou , Yuxuan Wang , Qinrong Cui , Wei Bi , Songchun Zhu , Bo Zhao , Zilong Zheng

As the intermediate-level representations bridging the two levels, structured representations of visual scenes, such as visual relationships between pairwise objects, have been shown to not only benefit compositional models in learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Meng-Jiun Chiou

Aiming towards improving current computational models of humor detection, we propose a new multimodal dataset of stand-up comedies, in seven languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian and Czech. Our dataset of more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Valentin Barriere , Nahuel Gomez , Leo Hemamou , Sofia Callejas , Brian Ravenet

Humor is a fundamental cognitive phenomenon in which humans derive pleasure from the expectation violations and their resolution, exemplifying the brain's dynamic capacity for predictive processing. Classical humor theories emphasize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yuxi Ma , Yongqian Peng , Junchen Lyu , Chi Zhang , Yixin Zhu