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Much previous work has been done in attempting to identify humor in text. In this paper we extend that capability by proposing a new task: assessing whether or not a joke is humorous. We present a novel way of approaching this problem by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Orion Weller , Kevin Seppi

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

It remains an open question whether incorporating external knowledge benefits commonsense reasoning while maintaining the flexibility of pretrained sequence models. To investigate this question, we develop generated knowledge prompting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jiacheng Liu , Alisa Liu , Ximing Lu , Sean Welleck , Peter West , Ronan Le Bras , Yejin Choi , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Previous work on pun generation commonly begins with a given pun word (a pair of homophones for heterographic pun generation and a polyseme for homographic pun generation) and seeks to generate an appropriate pun. While this may enable…

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

Humor recognition has been extensively studied with different methods in the past years. However, existing studies on humor recognition do not understand the mechanisms that generate humor. In this paper, inspired by the incongruity theory,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yang Liu , Yuexian Hou

Existing dialog datasets contain a sequence of utterances and responses without any explicit background knowledge associated with them. This has resulted in the development of models which treat conversation as a sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Nikita Moghe , Siddhartha Arora , Suman Banerjee , Mitesh M. Khapra

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

Grounding dialogue generation by extra knowledge has shown great potentials towards building a system capable of replying with knowledgeable and engaging responses. Existing studies focus on how to synthesize a response with proper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Xueliang Zhao , Tingchen Fu , Chongyang Tao , Wei Wu , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Artificial intelligence has made significant progress in natural language processing, with models like GPT-3 demonstrating impressive capabilities. However, these models still have limitations when it comes to complex tasks that require an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Yuetian Chen , Bowen Shi , Mei Si

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

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, 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

End-to-end dialogue generation has achieved promising results without using handcrafted features and attributes specific for each task and corpus. However, one of the fatal drawbacks in such approaches is that they are unable to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Hao-Tong Ye , Kai-Ling Lo , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Storytelling and narrative are fundamental to human experience, intertwined with our social and cultural engagement. As such, researchers have long attempted to create systems that can generate stories automatically. In recent years,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yuxin Wang , Jieru Lin , Zhiwei Yu , Wei Hu , Börje F. Karlsson

Humor is an essential human trait. Efforts to understand humor have called out links between humor and the foundations of cognition, as well as the importance of humor in social engagement. As such, it is a promising and important subject…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Robert West , Eric Horvitz

Text generation system has made massive promising progress contributed by deep learning techniques and has been widely applied in our life. However, existing end-to-end neural models suffer from the problem of tending to generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Hao Wang , Bin Guo , Wei Wu , Zhiwen Yu

In open-domain conversational systems, it is important but challenging to leverage background knowledge. We can use the incorporation of knowledge to make the generation of dialogue controllable, and can generate more diverse sentences that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Cheng Luo , Dayiheng Liu , Chanjuan Li , Li Lu , Jiancheng Lv

Large pre-trained language models (LMs) have been shown to perform surprisingly well when fine-tuned on tasks that require commonsense and world knowledge. However, in end-to-end architectures, it is difficult to explain what is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Veronica Latcinnik , Jonathan Berant

This work describes the task of metaphoric paraphrase generation, in which we are given a literal sentence and are charged with generating a metaphoric paraphrase. We propose two different models for this task: a lexical replacement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Kevin Stowe , Leonardo Ribeiro , Iryna Gurevych

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