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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

Humor is a defining characteristic of human beings. Our goal is to develop methods that automatically detect humorous statements and rank them on a continuous scale. In this paper we report on results using a Language Model approach, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Xinru Yan , Ted Pedersen

Creating engaging narratives from visual data is crucial for automated digital media consumption, assistive technologies, and interactive entertainment. This survey covers methodologies used in the generation of these narratives, focusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Daniel A. P. Oliveira , Eugénio Ribeiro , David Martins de Matos

Satirical news is considered to be entertainment, but it is potentially deceptive and harmful. Despite the embedded genre in the article, not everyone can recognize the satirical cues and therefore believe the news as true news. We observe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Fan Yang , Arjun Mukherjee , Eduard Dragut

Smooth and effective communication requires the ability to perform latent or explicit commonsense inference. Prior commonsense reasoning benchmarks (such as SocialIQA and CommonsenseQA) mainly focus on the discriminative task of choosing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Pei Zhou , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Seokhwan Kim , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Speech-driven animation has gained significant traction in recent years, with current methods achieving near-photorealistic results. However, the field remains underexplored regarding non-verbal communication despite evidence demonstrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Rodrigo Mira , Nikita Drobyshev , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

With the rise of linked data and knowledge graphs, the need becomes compelling to find suitable solutions to increase the coverage and correctness of datasets, to add missing knowledge and to identify and remove errors. Several approaches -…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Gloria Re Calegari , Andrea Fiano , Irene Celino

Newspapers are a popular form of written discourse, read by many people, thanks to the novelty of the information provided by the news content in it. A headline is the most widely read part of any newspaper due to its appearance in a bigger…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Elizabeth Jasmi George , Radhika Mamidi

Story generation, namely generating a reasonable story from a leading context, is an important but challenging task. In spite of the success in modeling fluency and local coherence, existing neural language generation models (e.g., GPT-2)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Jian Guan , Fei Huang , Zhihao Zhao , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

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

This research examines the potential of datasets generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) to support Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, aiming to overcome challenges related to data acquisition and privacy concerns associated with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Olusola Babalola , Bolanle Ojokoh , Olutayo Boyinbode

Large language models can generate plausible game code, but turning this capability into \emph{iterative creative improvement} remains difficult. In practice, single-shot generation often produces brittle runtime behavior, weak accumulation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Hongnan Ma , Han Wang , Shenglin Wang , Tieyue Yin , Yiwei Shi , Yucong Huang , Yingtian Zou , Muning Wen , Mengyue Yang

Satirical news detection is an important yet challenging task to prevent spread of misinformation. Many feature based and end-to-end neural nets based satirical news detection systems have been proposed and delivered promising results.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yue Zhou , Yan Zhang , JingTao Yao

Number-focused headline generation is a summarization task requiring both high textual quality and precise numerical accuracy, which poses a unique challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing studies in the literature focus only on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Zhen Qian , Xiuzhen Zhang , Xiaofei Xu , Feng Xia

A hyperbole is an intentional and creative exaggeration not to be taken literally. Despite its ubiquity in daily life, the computational explorations of hyperboles are scarce. In this paper, we tackle the under-explored and challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yufei Tian , Arvind krishna Sridhar , Nanyun Peng

Story generation is an important natural language processing task that aims to generate coherent stories automatically. While the use of neural networks has proven effective in improving story generation, how to learn to generate an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Gang Chen , Yang Liu , Huanbo Luan , Meng Zhang , Qun Liu , Maosong Sun

Media news are making a large part of public opinion and, therefore, must not be fake. News on web sites, blogs, and social media must be analyzed before being published. In this paper, we present linguistic characteristics of media news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Sandhya Aneja , Nagender Aneja , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

This study presents a theory-inspired visual narrative generative system that integrates conceptual principles-comic authoring idioms-with generative and language models to enhance the comic creation process. Our system combines human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yi-Chun Chen , Arnav Jhala

The advent of personalized content generation by LLMs presents a novel challenge: how to efficiently adapt text to meet individual preferences without the unsustainable demand of creating a unique model for each user. This study introduces…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Zekai Chen , Weeden Daniel , Po-yu Chen , Francois Buet-Golfouse

People are remarkably capable of generating their own goals, beginning with child's play and continuing into adulthood. Despite considerable empirical and computational work on goals and goal-oriented behavior, models are still far from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Guy Davidson , Graham Todd , Julian Togelius , Todd M. Gureckis , Brenden M. Lake