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As the wide adoption of intelligent chatbot in human daily life, user demands for such systems evolve from basic task-solving conversations to more casual and friend-like communication. To meet the user needs and build emotional bond with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Danning Zheng , Ruihua Song , Tianran Hu , Hao Fu , Jin Zhou

In spoken dialogue systems, we aim to deploy artificial intelligence to build automated dialogue agents that can converse with humans. Dialogue systems are increasingly being designed to move beyond just imitating conversation and also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Atharv Singh Patlan , Shiven Tripathi , Shubham Korde

ChatGPT has enabled access to AI-generated writing for the masses, and within just a few months, this product has disrupted the knowledge economy, initiating a culture shift in the way people work, learn, and write. The need to discriminate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Heather Desaire , Aleesa E. Chua , Madeline Isom , Romana Jarosova , David Hua

In this paper, we describe the foundations for generating a chatbot out of a website equipped with simple, bot-specific HTML annotations. The approach is part of what we call conversational web browsing, i.e., a dialog-based, natural…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Pietro Chittò , Marcos Baez , Florian Daniel , Boualem Benatallah

Translating wordplay across languages presents unique challenges that have long confounded both professional human translators and machine translation systems. This research proposes a novel approach for translating puns from English to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Russell Taylor , Benjamin Herbert , Michael Sana

Interacting with human via high-quality multi-turn dialogues is a key feature of large language models (LLMs). However, human-based evaluation of such capability involves intensive manual labor. This report provides a preliminary evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Haodong Duan , Jueqi Wei , Chonghua Wang , Hongwei Liu , Yixiao Fang , Songyang Zhang , Dahua Lin , Kai Chen

The generation of humor is an under-explored and challenging problem. Previous works mainly utilize templates or replace phrases to generate humor. However, few works focus on freer forms and the background knowledge of humor. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Hang Zhang , Dayiheng Liu , Jiancheng Lv , Cheng Luo

Riddles based on simple puns can be classified according to the patterns of word, syllable or phrase similarity they depend upon. We have devised a formal model of the semantic and syntactic regularities underlying some of the simpler types…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Kim Binsted , Graeme Ritchie

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

As neural language models grow in effectiveness, they are increasingly being applied in real-world settings. However these applications tend to be limited in the modes of interaction they support. In this extended abstract, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Andy Coenen , Luke Davis , Daphne Ippolito , Emily Reif , Ann Yuan

Detecting if a text is humorous is a hard task to do computationally, as it usually requires linguistic and common sense insights. In machine learning, humor detection is usually modeled as a binary classification task, trained to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Thomas Winters , Pieter Delobelle

The development of natural language processing algorithms and the explosive growth of conversational data are encouraging researches on the human-computer conversation. Still, getting qualified conversational data on a large scale is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Sihyeon Jo , Seungryong Yoo , Sangwon Im , Seung Hee Yang , Tong Zuo , Hee-Eun Kim , SangWook Han , Seong-Woo Kim

This paper introduces a system used to generate game feature suggestions based on a text prompt. Trained on the game descriptions of almost 60k games, it uses the word embeddings of a small GLoVe model to extract features and entities found…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 M Charity , Yash Bhartia , Daniel Zhang , Ahmed Khalifa , Julian Togelius

Automated news generation has become a major interest for new agencies in the past. Oftentimes headlines for such automatically generated news articles are unimaginative as they have been generated with ready-made templates. We present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Khalid Alnajjar , Mika Hämäläinen

This paper presents the Crowd Score, a novel method to assess the funniness of jokes using large language models (LLMs) as AI judges. Our method relies on inducing different personalities into the LLM and aggregating the votes of the AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Fabricio Goes , Zisen Zhou , Piotr Sawicki , Marek Grzes , Daniel G. Brown

In this work we explore a deep learning-based dialogue system that generates sarcastic and humorous responses from a conversation design perspective. We trained a seq2seq model on a carefully curated dataset of 3000 question-answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Suzana Ilić , Reiichiro Nakano , Ivo Hajnal

Chatbots are increasingly applied to domains previously reserved for human actors. One such domain is comedy, whereby both the general public working with ChatGPT and research-based LLM-systems have tried their hands on making humor. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xuehan Huang , Canwen Wang , Yifei Hao , Daijin Yang , Ray LC

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

The rapid development of the Internet has profoundly changed human life. Humans are increasingly expressing themselves and interacting with others on social media platforms. However, although artificial intelligence technology has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Haochen Xue , Chong Zhang , Chengzhi Liu , Fangyu Wu , Xiaobo Jin

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