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While significant progress has been made using machine learning algorithms to detect hate speech, important technical challenges still remain to be solved in order to bring their performance closer to human accuracy. We investigate several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Vlad Sandulescu

A chatbot is perceived as more humanlike and likeable if it includes some jokes in its output. But most existing joke generators were not designed to be integrated into chatbots. This paper presents Witscript, a novel joke generation system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Joe Toplyn

Humor is a salient testbed for human-like creative thinking in large language models (LLMs). We study humor using the Japanese creative response game Oogiri, in which participants produce witty responses to a given prompt, and ask the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Soichiro Murakami , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Hiroya Takamura , Manabu Okumura

This paper describes MagicPai's system for SemEval 2021 Task 7, HaHackathon: Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense. This task aims to detect whether the text is humorous and how humorous it is. There are four subtasks in the competition.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Jian Ma , Shuyi Xie , Haiqin Yang , Lianxin Jiang , Mengyuan Zhou , Xiaoyi Ruan , Yang Mo

The proliferation of online hate speech has necessitated the creation of algorithms which can detect toxicity. Most of the past research focuses on this detection as a classification task, but assigning an absolute toxicity label is often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Millon Madhur Das , Punyajoy Saha , Mithun Das

Automated news generation has become a major interest for new agencies in the past. Oftentimes headlines for such automatically generated news articles are unimaginative as they have been generated with ready-made templates. We present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Khalid Alnajjar , Mika Hämäläinen

Sarcasm occurring due to the presence of numerical portions in text has been quoted as an error made by automatic sarcasm detection approaches in the past. We present a first study in detecting sarcasm in numbers, as in the case of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Lakshya Kumar , Arpan Somani , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

The pervasiveness of offensive language on the social network has caused adverse effects on society, such as abusive behavior online. It is urgent to detect offensive language and curb its spread. Existing research shows that methods with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Zhenxiong Miao , Xingshu Chen , Haizhou Wang , Rui Tang , Zhou Yang , Wenyi Tang

In order for our computer systems to be more human-like, with a higher emotional quotient, they need to be able to process and understand intrinsic human language phenomena like humour. In this paper, we consider a subtype of humour - puns,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Srishti Aggarwal , Kritik Mathur , Radhika Mamidi

Automatic sarcasm detection is the task of predicting sarcasm in text. This is a crucial step to sentiment analysis, considering prevalence and challenges of sarcasm in sentiment-bearing text. Beginning with an approach that used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Aditya Joshi , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark James Carman

We use pretrained transformer-based language models in SemEval-2020 Task 7: Assessing the Funniness of Edited News Headlines. Inspired by the incongruity theory of humor, we use a contrastive approach to capture the surprise in the edited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Shuning Jin , Yue Yin , XianE Tang , Ted Pedersen

A computer model of "a sense of humour" suggested previously [arXiv:0711.2058,0711.2061], relating the humorous effect with a specific malfunction in information processing, is given in somewhat different exposition. Psychological aspects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-11-27 I. M. Suslov

Sarcasm is a peculiar form of sentiment expression, where the surface sentiment differs from the implied sentiment. The detection of sarcasm in social media platforms has been applied in the past mainly to textual utterances where lexical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Rossano Schifanella , Paloma de Juan , Joel Tetreault , Liangliang Cao

Satire, irony, and sarcasm are techniques typically used to express humor and critique, rather than deceive; however, they can occasionally be mistaken for factual reporting, akin to fake news. These techniques can be applied at a more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu , Andreea Iuga , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Florin Pop

Humor is a social binding agent. It is an act of creativity that can provoke emotional reactions on a broad range of topics. Humor has long been thought to be "too human" for AI to generate. However, humans are complex, and humor requires…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Sean Kim , Lydia B. Chilton

Evaluating humor in large language models (LLMs) is an open challenge because existing approaches yield isolated, incomparable metrics rather than unified model rankings, making it difficult to track progress across systems. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Edward Ajayi , Prasenjit Mitra

In this paper, we assess the ability of BERT and its derivative models (RoBERTa, DistilBERT, and ALBERT) for short-edits based humor grading. We test these models for humor grading and classification tasks on the Humicroedit and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Siddhant Mahurkar , Rajaswa Patil

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

Chatbots are increasingly applied to domains previously reserved for human actors. One such domain is comedy, whereby both the general public working with ChatGPT and research-based LLM-systems have tried their hands on making humor. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xuehan Huang , Canwen Wang , Yifei Hao , Daijin Yang , Ray LC

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