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Well-defined jokes can be divided neatly into a setup and a punchline. While most works on humor today talk about a joke as a whole, the idea of generating punchlines to a setup has applications in conversational humor, where funny remarks…

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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

The ability to fuse sentences is highly attractive for summarization systems because it is an essential step to produce succinct abstracts. However, to date, summarizers can fail on fusing sentences. They tend to produce few summary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Logan Lebanoff , Franck Dernoncourt , Doo Soon Kim , Lidan Wang , Walter Chang , Fei Liu

While the task of assessing the plausibility of events such as ''news is relevant'' has been addressed by a growing body of work, less attention has been paid to capturing changes in plausibility as triggered by event modification.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Anna Golub , Beate Zywietz , Annerose Eichel

Contextualized or discourse aware commonsense inference is the task of generating coherent commonsense assertions (i.e., facts) from a given story, and a particular sentence from that story. Some problems with the task are: lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Pedro Colon-Hernandez , Henry Lieberman , Yida Xin , Claire Yin , Cynthia Breazeal , Peter Chin

Humor understanding is an important and challenging research in natural language processing. As the popularity of pre-trained language models (PLMs), some recent work makes preliminary attempts to adopt PLMs for humor recognition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuyan Chen , Zhixu Li , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Bang Liu , Yunwen Chen

The Transformer-based model have made significant strides in semantic matching tasks by capturing connections between phrase pairs. However, to assess the relevance of sentence pairs, it is insufficient to just examine the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Bo Li , Di Liang , Zixin Zhang

Humor and Offense are highly subjective due to multiple word senses, cultural knowledge, and pragmatic competence. Hence, accurately detecting humorous and offensive texts has several compelling use cases in Recommendation Systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Aishwarya Gupta , Avik Pal , Bholeshwar Khurana , Lakshay Tyagi , Ashutosh Modi

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

Humor holds up a mirror to social perception: what we find funny often reflects who we are and how we judge others. When language models engage with humor, their reactions expose the social assumptions they have internalized from training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Shubin Kim , Yejin Son , Junyeong Park , Keummin Ka , Seungbeen Lee , Jaeyoung Lee , Hyeju Jang , Alice Oh , Youngjae Yu

Transformers underlie almost all state-of-the-art language models in computational linguistics, yet their cognitive adequacy as models of human sentence processing remains disputed. In this work, we use a surprisal-based linking mechanism…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Titus von der Malsburg , Sebastian Padó

Humor is an important social phenomenon, serving complex social and psychological functions. However, despite being studied for millennia humor is computationally not well understood, often considered an AI-complete problem. In this work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Chen Shani , Nadav Borenstein , Dafna Shahaf

The vast area of subjectivity in Natural Language Processing (NLP) poses a challenge to the solutions typically used in generalized tasks. As exploration in the scope of generalized NLP is much more advanced, it implies the tremendous gap…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Julita Bielaniewicz , Przemysław Kazienko

In this study, we explore the application of transformer-based models for emotion classification on text data. We train and evaluate several pre-trained transformer models, on the Emotion dataset using different variants of transformers.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Mahdi Rezapour

Sarcasm is a linguistic expression often used to communicate the opposite of what is said, usually something that is very unpleasant with an intention to insult or ridicule. Inherent ambiguity in sarcastic expressions, make sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Ramya Akula , Ivan Garibay

Humor is a broad and complex form of communication that remains challenging for machines. Despite its broadness, most existing research on computational humor traditionally focused on modeling a specific type of humor. In this work, we wish…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mor Turgeman , Chen Shani , Dafna Shahaf

Humour, as a complex language form, is derived from myriad aspects of life. Whilst existing work on computational humour has focussed almost exclusively on short pun-based jokes, we investigate whether the ability of Large Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Tyler Loakman , William Thorne , Chenghua Lin

Humor recognition has been widely studied as a text classification problem using data-driven approaches. However, most existing work does not examine the actual joke mechanism to understand humor. We break down any joke into two distinct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yubo Xie , Junze Li , Pearl Pu

In recent years, language models and deep learning techniques have revolutionized natural language processing tasks, including emotion detection. However, the specific emotion of guilt has received limited attention in this field. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque , Jason Angel , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

Objective criteria for universal semantic components that distinguish a humorous utterance from a non-humorous one are presently under debate. In this article, we give an in-depth observation of our system of self-paced reading for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Elena Mikhalkova , Nadezhda Ganzherli , Julia Murzina