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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

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

Detecting if a text is humorous is a hard task to do computationally, as it usually requires linguistic and common sense insights. In machine learning, humor detection is usually modeled as a binary classification task, trained to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Thomas Winters , Pieter Delobelle

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

Comedy serves as a profound reflection of the times we live in and is a staple element of human interactions. In light of the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), the intersection of humor and AI has become no laughing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Adrianna Romanowski , Pedro H. V. Valois , Kazuhiro Fukui

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

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

Humour, as a complex language form, is derived from myriad aspects of life. Whilst existing work on computational humour has focussed almost exclusively on short pun-based jokes, we investigate whether the ability of Large Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Tyler Loakman , William Thorne , Chenghua Lin

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

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

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

Automation of humor detection and rating has interesting use cases in modern technologies, such as humanoid robots, chatbots, and virtual assistants. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for detecting and rating humor in short texts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Issa Annamoradnejad , Gohar Zoghi

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 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

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

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

Background: Humor is a fundamental part of human communication, with prior work linking positive humor in the workplace to positive outcomes, such as improved performance and job satisfaction. Aims: This study aims to investigate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Miikka Kuutila , Leevi Rantala , Junhao Li , Simo Hosio , Mika Mäntylä

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

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

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
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