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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

In response to the increasing use of interactive artificial intelligence, the demand for the capacity to handle complex questions has increased. Multi-hop question generation aims to generate complex questions that requires multi-step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Seonjeong Hwang , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Long text generation is an important but challenging task.The main problem lies in learning sentence-level semantic dependencies which traditional generative models often suffer from. To address this problem, we propose a Multi-hop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Liang Zhao , Jingjing Xu , Junyang Lin , Yichang Zhang , Hongxia Yang , Xu Sun

Stories generated with neural language models have shown promise in grammatical and stylistic consistency. However, the generated stories are still lacking in common sense reasoning, e.g., they often contain sentences deprived of world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Huanru Henry Mao , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Julian McAuley , Garrison W. Cottrell

Previous papers presented Witscript and Witscript 2, AI systems for improvising jokes in a conversation. Witscript generates jokes that rely on wordplay, whereas the jokes generated by Witscript 2 rely on common sense. This paper extends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Joe Toplyn

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in language generation, understanding, and few-shot learning in recent years. An extensive body of work has explored how their performance may be further improved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yilun Du , Shuang Li , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Igor Mordatch

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

Sub-tasks of intent classification, such as robustness to distribution shift, adaptation to specific user groups and personalization, out-of-domain detection, require extensive and flexible datasets for experiments and evaluation. As…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Pavel Burnyshev , Valentin Malykh , Andrey Bout , Ekaterina Artemova , Irina Piontkovskaya

Humor is a commonly used and intricate human language in daily life. Humor generation, especially in multi-modal scenarios, is a challenging task for large language models (LLMs), which is typically as funny caption generation for images,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Wenbo Shang , Yuxi Sun , Jing Ma , Xin Huang

Computational humor is a frontier for creating advanced and engaging natural language processing (NLP) applications, such as sophisticated dialogue systems. While previous studies have benchmarked the humor capabilities of Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ritsu Sakabe , Hwichan Kim , Tosho Hirasawa , Mamoru Komachi

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are widely used across diverse educational fields and levels. Well-designed MCQs should evaluate knowledge application in real-world situations. However, writing such test items in sufficient numbers is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tetiana Krushynska , Jani Ursin , Ville Heilala

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

Thinking Large Language Models (LLMs) generate explicit intermediate reasoning traces before final answers, potentially improving transparency, interpretability, and solution accuracy for code generation. However, the quality of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Haoran Xue , Gias Uddin , Song Wang

Leveraging multilingual parallel texts to automatically generate paraphrases has drawn much attention as size of high-quality paraphrase corpus is limited. Round-trip translation, also known as the pivoting method, is a typical approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Yinpeng Guo , Yi Liao , Xin Jiang , Qing Zhang , Yibo Zhang , Qun Liu

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) employing Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting have broadened the scope for improving multi-step reasoning capabilities. We generally divide multi-step reasoning into two phases: path generation to generate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Nay Oo , Bryan Hooi

We propose a unified framework to generate both homophonic and homographic puns to resolve the split-up in existing works. Specifically, we incorporate three linguistic attributes of puns to the language models: ambiguity, distinctiveness,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yufei Tian , Divyanshu Sheth , Nanyun Peng

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

Writing rap lyrics requires both creativity to construct a meaningful, interesting story and lyrical skills to produce complex rhyme patterns, which form the cornerstone of good flow. We present a rap lyrics generation method that captures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Eric Malmi , Pyry Takala , Hannu Toivonen , Tapani Raiko , Aristides Gionis

The task of Critical Questions Generation (CQs-Gen) aims to foster critical thinking by enabling systems to generate questions that expose underlying assumptions and challenge the validity of argumentative reasoning structures. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Banca Calvo Figueras , Rodrigo Agerri