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In recent years, monitoring hate speech and offensive language on social media platforms has become paramount due to its widespread usage among all age groups, races, and ethnicities. Consequently, there have been substantial research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Aneri Rana , Sonali Jha

We present a novel multimodal preference dataset for creative tasks, consisting of over 250 million human ratings on more than 2.2 million captions, collected through crowdsourcing rating data for The New Yorker's weekly cartoon caption…

Language is the principal tool for human communication, in which humor is one of the most attractive parts. Producing natural language like humans using computers, a.k.a, Natural Language Generation (NLG), has been widely used for dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Benyou Wang , Xiangbo Wu , Xiaokang Liu , Jianquan Li , Prayag Tiwari , Qianqian Xie

Understanding humor is a core aspect of social intelligence, yet it remains a significant challenge for Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). We introduce PixelHumor, a benchmark dataset of 2,800 annotated multi-panel comics designed to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuriel Ryan , Rui Yang Tan , Kenny Tsu Wei Choo , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Dark humor often relies on subtle cultural nuances and implicit cues that require contextual reasoning to interpret, posing safety challenges that current static benchmarks fail to capture. To address this, we introduce a novel multimodal,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ahmed Sharshar , Hosam Elgendy , Saad El Dine Ahmed , Yasser Rohaim , Yuxia Wang

The tasks of humor understanding and generation are challenging and subjective even for humans, requiring commonsense and real-world knowledge to master. Puns, in particular, add the challenge of fusing that knowledge with the ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jiao Sun , Anjali Narayan-Chen , Shereen Oraby , Alessandra Cervone , Tagyoung Chung , Jing Huang , Yang Liu , Nanyun Peng

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

In this paper, we explore the generation of one-liner jokes through multi-step reasoning. Our work involved reconstructing the process behind creating humorous one-liners and developing a working prototype for humor generation. We conducted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Alexey Tikhonov , Pavel Shtykovskiy

Sarcasm is a linguistic expression often used to communicate the opposite of what is said, usually something that is very unpleasant with an intention to insult or ridicule. Inherent ambiguity in sarcastic expressions, make sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Ramya Akula , Ivan Garibay

Large neural networks can now generate jokes, but do they really "understand" humor? We challenge AI models with three tasks derived from the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest: matching a joke to a cartoon, identifying a winning caption,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Jack Hessel , Ana Marasović , Jena D. Hwang , Lillian Lee , Jeff Da , Rowan Zellers , Robert Mankoff , Yejin Choi

In this paper, we present our solution to the MuSe-Humor sub-challenge of the Multimodal Emotional Challenge (MuSe) 2022. The goal of the MuSe-Humor sub-challenge is to detect humor and calculate AUC from audiovisual recordings of German…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Haojie Xu , Weifeng Liu , Jingwei Liu , Mingzheng Li , Yu Feng , Yasi Peng , Yunwei Shi , Xiao Sun , Meng Wang

Idioms are figurative expressions whose meanings often cannot be inferred from their individual words, making them difficult to process computationally and posing challenges for human experimental studies. This survey reviews datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Michael Flor , Xinyi Liu , Anna Feldman

Humor understanding is an important and challenging research in natural language processing. As the popularity of pre-trained language models (PLMs), some recent work makes preliminary attempts to adopt PLMs for humor recognition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuyan Chen , Zhixu Li , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Bang Liu , Yunwen Chen

Humour translation plays a vital role as a bridge between different cultures, fostering understanding and communication. Although most existing Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of general translation tasks, these models still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yuchen Su , Yonghua Zhu , Yang Chen , Diana Benavides-Prado , Michael Witbrock

Memes are one of the most ubiquitous forms of social media communication. The study and processing of memes, which are intrinsically multimedia, is a popular topic right now. The study presented in this research is based on the Memotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Nayan Varma Alluri , Neeli Dheeraj Krishna

As humans, we experience the world with all our senses or modalities (sound, sight, touch, smell, and taste). We use these modalities, particularly sight and touch, to convey and interpret specific meanings. Multimodal expressions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Anirudh Sundar , Larry Heck

Interpreting figurative language such as sarcasm across multi-modal inputs presents unique challenges, often requiring task-specific fine-tuning and extensive reasoning steps. However, current Chain-of-Thought approaches do not efficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Aashish Anantha Ramakrishnan , Aadarsh Anantha Ramakrishnan , Dongwon Lee

Sarcasm is a rhetorical device that is used to convey the opposite of the literal meaning of an utterance. Sarcasm is widely used on social media and other forms of computer-mediated communication motivating the use of computational models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shafkat Farabi , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Diptesh Kanojia , Yu Kong , Marcos Zampieri

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

Humor is a commonly used and intricate human language in daily life. Humor generation, especially in multi-modal scenarios, is a challenging task for large language models (LLMs), which is typically as funny caption generation for images,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Wenbo Shang , Yuxi Sun , Jing Ma , Xin Huang
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