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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

Ironies can not only express stronger emotions but also show a sense of humor. With the development of social media, ironies are widely used in public. Although many prior research studies have been conducted in irony detection, few studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Mengdi Zhu , Zhiwei Yu , Xiaojun Wan

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

Computational humor detection systems rarely model the subjectivity of humor responses, or consider alternative reactions to humor - namely offense. We analyzed a large dataset of humor and offense ratings by male and female annotators of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 J. A. Meaney , Steven R. Wilson , Luis Chiruzzo , Walid Magdy

Social media users express their political preferences via interaction with other users, by spontaneous declarations or by participation in communities within the network. This makes a social network such as Twitter a valuable data source…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Joseba Fernandez de Landa , Rodrigo Agerri

The automatic detection of humor poses a grand challenge for natural language processing. Transformer-based systems have recently achieved remarkable results on this task, but they usually (1)~were evaluated in setups where serious vs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Maxime Peyrard , Beatriz Borges , Kristina Gligorić , Robert West

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

Bragging is a speech act employed with the goal of constructing a favorable self-image through positive statements about oneself. It is widespread in daily communication and especially popular in social media, where users aim to build a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Mali Jin , Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro , A. Seza Doğruöz , Nikolaos Aletras

Many methods have been used to recognize author personality traits from text, typically combining linguistic feature engineering with shallow learning models, e.g. linear regression or Support Vector Machines. This work uses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Fei Liu , Julien Perez , Scott Nowson

Understanding various humour styles is essential for comprehending the multifaceted nature of humour and its impact on fields such as psychology and artificial intelligence. This understanding has revealed that humour, depending on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Mary Ogbuka Kenneth , Foaad Khosmood , Abbas Edalat

Our paper studies the predictability of online speech -- that is, how well language models learn to model the distribution of user generated content on X (previously Twitter). We define predictability as a measure of the model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Mina Remeli , Moritz Hardt , Robert C. Williamson

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

Sentiment Classification is a fundamental task in the field of Natural Language Processing, and has very important academic and commercial applications. It aims to automatically predict the degree of sentiment present in a text that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Lautaro Estienne , Matias Vera , Leonardo Rey Vega

In this work we present a new small data-set in Computational Creativity (CC) field, the Spanish Literary Sentences for emotions detection corpus (LISSS). We address this corpus of literary sentences in order to evaluate or design…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno , Luis-Gil Moreno-Jiménez

In contrast to much previous work that has focused on location classification of tweets restricted to a specific country, here we undertake the task in a broader context by classifying global tweets at the country level, which is so far…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Alex Voss , Rob Procter , Maria Liakata , Bo Wang , Adam Tsakalidis

Humor is a broad and complex form of communication that remains challenging for machines. Despite its broadness, most existing research on computational humor traditionally focused on modeling a specific type of humor. In this work, we wish…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mor Turgeman , Chen Shani , Dafna Shahaf

Fake news are affecting a large proportion of the population even becoming a danger to the society. Mostly, this disinformation flow take place through Internet. Being aware of that problem, in this work we propose a synthetic indicator…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Aarón López-García , Rafael Benítez

This paper maps the large-scale variation of the Spanish language by employing a corpus based on geographically tagged Twitter messages. Lexical dialects are extracted from an analysis of variants of tens of concepts. The resulting maps…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-07 Bruno Gonçalves , David Sánchez

Humour, a fundamental aspect of human communication, manifests itself in various styles that significantly impact social interactions and mental health. Recognising different humour styles poses challenges due to the lack of established…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Mary Ogbuka Kenneth , Foaad Khosmood , Abbas Edalat

In this work we present a state of the art in the area of Computational Creativity (CC). In particular, we address the automatic generation of literary sentences in Spanish. We propose three models of text generation based mainly on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Luis-Gil Moreno-Jiménez , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno , Roseli S. Wedemann