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Humor is a fundamental facet of human cognition and interaction. Yet, despite recent advances in natural language processing, humor detection remains a challenging task that is complicated by the scarcity of datasets that pair humorous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Zachary Horvitz , Jingru Chen , Rahul Aditya , Harshvardhan Srivastava , Robert West , Zhou Yu , Kathleen McKeown

Humor is a substantial element of human social behavior, affect, and cognition. Its automatic understanding can facilitate a more naturalistic human-AI interaction. Current methods of humor detection have been exclusively based on staged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Lukas Christ , Shahin Amiriparian , Alexander Kathan , Niklas Müller , Andreas König , Björn W. Schuller

Multimodal learning is an emerging yet challenging research area. In this paper, we deal with multimodal sarcasm and humor detection from conversational videos and image-text pairs. Being a fleeting action, which is reflected across the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Shraman Pramanick , Aniket Roy , Vishal M. Patel

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

Puns are a common form of rhetorical wordplay that exploits polysemy and phonetic similarity to create humor. In multimodal puns, visual and textual elements synergize to ground the literal sense and evoke the figurative meaning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Naen Xu , Jiayi Sheng , Changjiang Li , Chunyi Zhou , Yuyuan Li , Tianyu Du , Jun Wang , Zhihui Fu , Jinbao Li , Shouling Ji

Puns are a form of humorous wordplay that exploits polysemy and phonetic similarity. While LLMs have shown promise in detecting puns, we show in this paper that their understanding often remains shallow, lacking the nuanced grasp typical of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alessandro Zangari , Matteo Marcuzzo , Andrea Albarelli , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar , Jose Camacho-Collados

Metaphor and humor share a lot of common ground, and metaphor is one of the most common humorous mechanisms. This study focuses on the humorous capacity of multimodal metaphors, which has not received due attention in the community. We take…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaoyu Tong , Zhi Zhang , Pia Sommerauer , Martha Lewis , Ekaterina Shutova

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

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

The creation and perception of humour is a fundamental human trait, positioning its computational understanding as one of the most challenging tasks in natural language processing (NLP). As an abstract, creative, and frequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Tyler Loakman , William Thorne , Chenghua Lin

Irony is a ubiquitous figurative language in daily communication. Previously, many researchers have approached irony from linguistic, cognitive science, and computational aspects. Recently, some progress have been witnessed in automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Qingcheng Zeng , An-Ran Li

Humor is an integral part of human lives. Despite being tremendously impactful, it is perhaps surprising that we do not have a detailed understanding of humor yet. As interactions between humans and AI systems increase, it is imperative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Arjun Chandrasekaran , Ashwin K. Vijayakumar , Stanislaw Antol , Mohit Bansal , Dhruv Batra , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Devi Parikh

Detecting laughter in video is essential for affective computing and narrative understanding, yet existing approaches treat it as coarse clip-level classification, failing to capture precise temporal boundaries of brief, transient laughter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Eyal Hanania , Nadav Kirsch , Daniel Arkushin , Jonathan Benvenisti , Amos Bercovich , Elie Zemmour , Sahar Froim

Humor, as both a creative human activity and a social binding mechanism, has long posed a major challenge for AI generation. Although producing humor requires complex cognitive reasoning and social understanding, theories of humor suggest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jiajun Zhang , Shijia Luo , Ruikang Zhang , Qi Su

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

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

Humor holds up a mirror to social perception: what we find funny often reflects who we are and how we judge others. When language models engage with humor, their reactions expose the social assumptions they have internalized from training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Shubin Kim , Yejin Son , Junyeong Park , Keummin Ka , Seungbeen Lee , Jaeyoung Lee , Hyeju Jang , Alice Oh , Youngjae Yu

Humor is previously regarded as a gift exclusive to humans for the following reasons. Humor is a culturally nuanced aspect of human language, presenting challenges for its understanding and generation. Humor generation necessitates a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Han Wang , Yilin Zhao , Dian Li , Xiaohan Wang , Gang Liu , Xuguang Lan , Hui Wang

Well-defined jokes can be divided neatly into a setup and a punchline. While most works on humor today talk about a joke as a whole, the idea of generating punchlines to a setup has applications in conversational humor, where funny remarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Tanishq Chaudhary , Mayank Goel , Radhika Mamidi

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
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