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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

Attempt to use convolutional neural network to achieve kinematic analysis of plane bar structure. Through 3dsMax animation software and OpenCV module, self-build image dataset of geometrically stable system and geometrically unstable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Leye Zhang , Xiangxiang Tian , Hongjun Zhang

Sarcasm is a form of humor where expressions convey meanings opposite to their literal interpretations. Classifying and generating sarcasm using large language models is vital for interpreting human communication. Sarcasm poses challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lang Xiong , Raina Gao , Alyssa Jeong , Yicheng Fu , Sean O'Brien , Vasu Sharma , Kevin Zhu

This paper describes our submissions to SemEval 2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles for each of the two subtasks of Span Identification and Technique Classification. We make use of pre-trained BERT language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Paramansh Singh , Siraj Sandhu , Subham Kumar , Ashutosh Modi

We present an interpretable neural network approach to predicting and understanding politeness in natural language requests. Our models are based on simple convolutional neural networks directly on raw text, avoiding any manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Malika Aubakirova , Mohit Bansal

This paper describes work of the BUT-FIT's team at SemEval 2020 Task 4 - Commonsense Validation and Explanation. We participated in all three subtasks. In subtasks A and B, our submissions are based on pretrained language representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Josef Jon , Martin Fajčík , Martin Dočekal , Pavel Smrž

We describe MITRE's submission to the SemEval-2016 Task 6, Detecting Stance in Tweets. This effort achieved the top score in Task A on supervised stance detection, producing an average F1 score of 67.8 when assessing whether a tweet author…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Guido Zarrella , Amy Marsh

With the increasing number of clinical trial reports generated every day, it is becoming hard to keep up with novel discoveries that inform evidence-based healthcare recommendations. To help automate this process and assist medical experts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Juraj Vladika , Florian Matthes

We present a demonstration of a neural interactive-predictive system for tackling multimodal sequence to sequence tasks. The system generates text predictions to different sequence to sequence tasks: machine translation, image and video…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Álvaro Peris , Francisco Casacuberta

We investigate the task of complex NER for the English language. The task is non-trivial due to the semantic ambiguity of the textual structure and the rarity of occurrence of such entities in the prevalent literature. Using pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Amit Pandey , Swayatta Daw , Vikram Pudi

Humor generation poses a significant challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs), because their standard training objective (next-token prediction) inherently conflicts with the surprise and incongruity required for comedy. To bridge this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Edward Ajayi , Prasenjit Mitra

This paper describes our submission to Task 10 at SemEval 2023-Explainable Detection of Online Sexism (EDOS), divided into three subtasks. The recent rise in social media platforms has seen an increase in disproportionate levels of sexism…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Sriya Rallabandi , Sanchit Singhal , Pratinav Seth

Despite significant advancements in image segmentation and object detection, understanding complex scenes remains a significant challenge. Here, we focus on graphical humor as a paradigmatic example of image interpretation that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Vedaant Jain , Felipe dos Santos Alves Feitosa , Gabriel Kreiman

We propose a novel method for translation selection in statistical machine translation, in which a convolutional neural network is employed to judge the similarity between a phrase pair in two languages. The specifically designed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Zhaopeng Tu , Baotian Hu , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li

We present a counterfactual recognition (CR) task, the shared Task 5 of SemEval-2020. Counterfactuals describe potential outcomes (consequents) produced by actions or circumstances that did not happen or cannot happen and are counter to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Xiaoyu Yang , Stephen Obadinma , Huasha Zhao , Qiong Zhang , Stan Matwin , Xiaodan Zhu

Existing Machine Learning techniques yield close to human performance on text-based classification tasks. However, the presence of multi-modal noise in chat data such as emoticons, slang, spelling mistakes, code-mixed data, etc. makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Parag Agrawal , Anshuman Suri

This paper describes our system developed for the SemEval-2023 Task 12 "Sentiment Analysis for Low-resource African Languages using Twitter Dataset". Sentiment analysis is one of the most widely studied applications in natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Mingyang Wang , Heike Adel , Lukas Lange , Jannik Strötgen , Hinrich Schütze

This paper presents our systems for the three Subtasks of SemEval Task4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning (ReCAM). We explain the algorithms used to learn our models and the process of tuning the algorithms and selecting the best…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Xin Xie , Xiangnan Chen , Xiang Chen , Yong Wang , Ningyu Zhang , Shumin Deng , Huajun Chen

Humour has long been recognized as a key factor in enhancing creativity, group effectiveness, and employee well-being across various domains. However, its occurrence and impact within software engineering (SE) teams remains under-explored.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dulaji Hidellaarachchi , John Grundy , Rashina Hoda

This paper describes our system submitted to SemEval-2026 Task 11: Disentangling Content and Formal Reasoning in Large Language Models. We present an efficient modular neuro-symbolic approach, combining a symbolic prover with small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Ivan Kartáč , Kristýna Onderková , Jan Bronec , Zdeněk Kasner , Mateusz Lango , Ondřej Dušek