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In this position paper, we review the eclectic recent history of academic and artistic works involving computational systems for humor generation, and focus specifically on live performance. We make the case that AI comedy should be…

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Chatbots are intelligent conversational computer systems designed to mimic human conversation to enable automated online guidance and support. The increased benefits of chatbots led to their wide adoption by many industries in order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Guendalina Caldarini , Sardar Jaf , Kenneth McGarry

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…

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This paper introduces Linguistic Style Improvisation, a theory and set of algorithms for improvisation of spoken utterances by artificial agents, with applications to interactive story and dialogue systems. We argue that linguistic style is…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Marilyn A. Walker , Janet E. Cahn , Stephen J. Whittaker

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

With the recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), the automation of daily tasks, like automatic writing, is getting more and more attention. Hence, efforts have focused on aligning LLMs with human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mohammadamin Shafiei , Hamidreza Saffari

Innovation is a key component in trying new solutions for the students to learn efficiently and in ways that correspond to their own experience, where chatbots are one of these new solutions. One of the main problem that chatbots face today…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Dimitrios Chaskopoulos , Jonas Eilertsen Hægdahl , Petter Sagvold , Claire Trinquet , Maryam Edalati

Aiming towards improving current computational models of humor detection, we propose a new multimodal dataset of stand-up comedies, in seven languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian and Czech. Our dataset of more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Valentin Barriere , Nahuel Gomez , Leo Hemamou , Sofia Callejas , Brian Ravenet

The lack of time-efficient and reliable evaluation methods hamper the development of conversational dialogue systems (chatbots). Evaluations requiring humans to converse with chatbots are time and cost-intensive, put high cognitive demands…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jan Deriu , Don Tuggener , Pius von Däniken , Jon Ander Campos , Alvaro Rodrigo , Thiziri Belkacem , Aitor Soroa , Eneko Agirre , Mark Cieliebak

Existing research on response generation for chatbot focuses on \textbf{First Response Generation} which aims to teach the chatbot to say the first response (e.g. a sentence) appropriate to the conversation context (e.g. the user's query).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Furu Wei

AI large language models have (co-)produced amazing written works from newspaper articles to novels and poetry. These works meet the standards of the standard definition of creativity: being original and useful, and sometimes even the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Claire Stevenson , Iris Smal , Matthijs Baas , Raoul Grasman , Han van der Maas

Large-Language Models like GPT-3 have the potential to enable HCI designers and researchers to create more human-like and helpful chatbots for specific applications. But evaluating the feasibility of these chatbots and designing prompts…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Harsh Kumar , Ilya Musabirov , Jiakai Shi , Adele Lauzon , Kwan Kiu Choy , Ofek Gross , Dana Kulzhabayeva , Joseph Jay Williams

Endowing a chatbot with personality or an identity is quite challenging but critical to deliver more realistic and natural conversations. In this paper, we address the issue of generating responses that are coherent to a pre-specified agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Qiao Qian , Minlie Huang , Haizhou Zhao , Jingfang Xu , Xiaoyan Zhu

Recent advancements in large multimodal language models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency across a wide range of tasks. Yet, these models still struggle with understanding the nuances of human humor through juxtaposition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zhe Hu , Tuo Liang , Jing Li , Yiren Lu , Yunlai Zhou , Yiran Qiao , Jing Ma , Yu Yin

Collecting human-chatbot dialogues typically demands substantial manual effort and is time-consuming, which limits and poses challenges for research on conversational AI. In this work, we propose DialogueForge - a framework for generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruizhe Zhu , Hao Zhu , Yaxuan Li , Syang Zhou , Shijing Cai , Malgorzata Lazuka , Elliott Ash

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

AI chatbots are rapidly shaping how people encounter the news, yet no prior study has systematically measured how accurately these systems, with their proprietary search integrations and retrieval-synthesis pipelines, handle emerging facts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mirac Suzgun , Emily Shen , Federico Bianchi , Alexander Spangher , Thomas Icard , Daniel E. Ho , Dan Jurafsky , James Zou

We developed a dialogue system for Dialogue Robot Competition 2022. Our system is composed of three parts. First part investigates participants' demographic information by rule-based interview. Second part recommends a point of interest…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yuuki Tachioka

As a natural language assistant, ChatGPT is capable of performing various tasks, including but not limited to article generation, code completion, and data analysis. Furthermore, ChatGPT has consistently demonstrated a remarkable level of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yunjie Ji , Yan Gong , Yiping Peng , Chao Ni , Peiyan Sun , Dongyu Pan , Baochang Ma , Xiangang Li

Generative AI models continue to become more powerful. The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 has ushered in a new era of AI. ChatGPT and other similar chatbots have a range of capabilities, from answering student homework questions to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yanchen Wang , Lisa Singh