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This paper explores humor detection through a linguistic lens, prioritizing syntactic, semantic, and contextual features over computational methods in Natural Language Processing. We categorize features into syntactic, semantic, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Tanisha Khurana , Kaushik Pillalamarri , Vikram Pande , Munindar Singh

The generalisation of irony detection faces significant challenges, leading to substantial performance deviations when detection models are applied to diverse real-world scenarios. In this study, we find that irony-focused prompts, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Peiling Yi , Yuhan Xia , Yunfei Long

This paper presents OxfordTVG-HIC (Humorous Image Captions), a large-scale dataset for humour generation and understanding. Humour is an abstract, subjective, and context-dependent cognitive construct involving several cognitive factors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Runjia Li , Shuyang Sun , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Philip Torr

Automatically extracting engaging and high-quality humorous scenes from cinematic titles is pivotal for creating captivating video previews and snackable content, boosting user engagement on streaming platforms. Long-form cinematic titles,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Sibendu Paul , Haotian Jiang , Caren Chen

Humor, deeply rooted in societal meanings and cultural details, poses a unique challenge for machines. While advances have been made in natural language processing, real-world humor often thrives in a multi-modal context, encapsulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yuyan Chen , Songzhou Yan , Zhihong Zhu , Zhixu Li , Yanghua Xiao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant limitations in understanding creative content, as demonstrated by Hessel et al. (2023)'s influential work on the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest (NYCCC). Their study exposed a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Kuan Lok Zhou , Jiayi Chen , Siddharth Suresh , Reuben Narad , Timothy T. Rogers , Lalit K Jain , Robert D Nowak , Bob Mankoff , Jifan Zhang

Complaining is a speech act extensively used by humans to communicate a negative inconsistency between reality and expectations. Previous work on automatically identifying complaints in social media has focused on using feature-based and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Mali Jin , Nikolaos Aletras

Memes are used for spreading ideas through social networks. Although most memes are created for humor, some memes become hateful under the combination of pictures and text. Automatically detecting the hateful memes can help reduce their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yi Zhou , Zhenhao Chen

Accurate detection and classification of online hate is a difficult task. Implicit hate is particularly challenging as such content tends to have unusual syntax, polysemic words, and fewer markers of prejudice (e.g., slurs). This problem is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Austin Botelho , Bertie Vidgen , Scott A. Hale

Sarcasm detection, with its figurative nature, poses unique challenges for affective systems designed to perform sentiment analysis. While these systems typically perform well at identifying direct expressions of emotion, they struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ximing Wen , Rezvaneh Rezapour

The computer realization of a "sense of humour" requires the creation of an algorithm for solving the "linguistic problem", i.e. the problem of recognizing a continuous sequence of polysemantic images. Such algorithm may be realized in the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-11-27 I. M. Suslov

Textual humor is enormously diverse and computational studies need to account for this range, including intentionally bad humor. In this paper, we curate and analyze a novel corpus of sentences from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Venkata S Govindarajan , Laura Biester

Social media has become a very popular source of information. With this popularity comes an interest in systems that can classify the information produced. This study tries to create such a system detecting irony in Twitter users. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Tibor L. R. Krols , Marie Mortensen , Ninell Oldenburg

Today, the internet is an integral part of our daily lives, enabling people to be more connected than ever before. However, this greater connectivity and access to information increase exposure to harmful content such as cyber-bullying and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lanqin Yuan , Tianyu Wang , Gabriela Ferraro , Hanna Suominen , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Computational models for sarcasm detection have often relied on the content of utterances in isolation. However, the speaker's sarcastic intent is not always apparent without additional context. Focusing on social media discussions, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Debanjan Ghosh , Alexander R. Fabbri , Smaranda Muresan

We introduce a deep neural network for automated sarcasm detection. Recent work has emphasized the need for models to capitalize on contextual features, beyond lexical and syntactic cues present in utterances. For example, different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Silvio Amir , Byron C. Wallace , Hao Lyu , Paula Carvalho Mário J. Silva

We explore automatically predicting which Wordle games Reddit users find amusing. We scrape approximately 80k reactions by Reddit users to Wordle games from Reddit, classify the reactions as expressing amusement or not using OpenAI's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ronaldo Luo , Gary Liang , Cindy Liu , Adam Kabbara , Minahil Bakhtawar , Kina Kim , Michael Guerzhoy

The primary goal of a news headline is to summarize an event in as few words as possible. Depending on the media outlet, a headline can serve as a means to objectively deliver a summary or improve its visibility. For the latter, specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mihnea-Alexandru Vîrlan , Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Florin Pop , Mihaela-Claudia Cercel

Metaphor and sarcasm are common figurative expressions in people's communication, especially on the Internet or the memes popular among teenagers. We create a new benchmark named NYK-MS (NewYorKer for Metaphor and Sarcasm), which contains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ke Chang , Hao Li , Junzhao Zhang , Yunfang Wu

Topic Models have been reported to be beneficial for aspect-based sentiment analysis. This paper reports a simple topic model for sarcasm detection, a first, to the best of our knowledge. Designed on the basis of the intuition that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Aditya Joshi , Prayas Jain , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark Carman