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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

Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown the ability to generate content that is difficult or impossible to distinguish from human writing. We investigate the ability of differently-sized LLMs to replicate human writing style in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Tolga Buz , Benjamin Frost , Nikola Genchev , Moritz Schneider , Lucie-Aimée Kaffee , Gerard de Melo

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

The New Yorker publishes a weekly captionless cartoon. More than 5,000 readers submit captions for it. The editors select three of them and ask the readers to pick the funniest one. We describe an experiment that compares a dozen automatic…

Humor is a defining characteristic of human beings. Our goal is to develop methods that automatically detect humorous statements and rank them on a continuous scale. In this paper we report on results using a Language Model approach, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Xinru Yan , Ted Pedersen

Collaboration has been shown to enhance creativity, leading to more innovative and effective outcomes. While previous research has explored the abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to serve as co-creative partners in tasks like writing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zhikun Wu , Thomas Weber , Florian Müller

This study aimed to find new perspectives on the use of humor through digital media. A qualitative approach was used to conduct this study, where data were collected through a literature review. Stress is caused by the inability of a person…

General Economics · Economics 2020-12-08 Misnal Munir , Amaliyah , Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jiajun Zhang , Shijia Luo , Ruikang Zhang , Qi Su

Humour translation plays a vital role as a bridge between different cultures, fostering understanding and communication. Although most existing Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of general translation tasks, these models still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yuchen Su , Yonghua Zhu , Yang Chen , Diana Benavides-Prado , Michael Witbrock

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

Automation of humor detection and rating has interesting use cases in modern technologies, such as humanoid robots, chatbots, and virtual assistants. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for detecting and rating humor in short texts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Issa Annamoradnejad , Gohar Zoghi

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

A new core hypothesis on laughter is presented. It has been built by putting together ideas from several disciplines: neurodynamics, evolutionary neurobiology, paleoanthropology, social networks, and communication studies. The hypothesis…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2010-10-28 Pedro C. Marijuan , Jorge Navarro

What is an effective expression that draws laughter from human beings? In the present paper, in order to consider this question from an academic standpoint, we generate an image caption that draws a "laugh" by a computer. A system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Kota Yoshida , Munetaka Minoguchi , Kenichiro Wani , Akio Nakamura , Hirokatsu Kataoka

Understanding humor is a core aspect of social intelligence, yet it remains a significant challenge for Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). We introduce PixelHumor, a benchmark dataset of 2,800 annotated multi-panel comics designed to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuriel Ryan , Rui Yang Tan , Kenny Tsu Wei Choo , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

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

Sensitive attributes are legally protected characteristics that should not be used to discriminate. Careful steps have been taken to minimize the risk of human bias regarding these fields, such as race and age. Large language models (LLMs)…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anay Agarwalla , Simeon Sayer

The happy-productive worker thesis states that happy workers are more productive. Recent research in software engineering supports the thesis, and the ideal of flourishing happiness among software developers is often expressed among…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Daniel Graziotin , Fabian Fagerholm , Xiaofeng Wang , Pekka Abrahamsson

Coding agents have received significant adoption in software development recently. Unlike traditional LLM-based code completion tools, coding agents work with autonomy (e.g., invoking external tools) and leave visible traces in software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Andre Hora , Romain Robbes

Context: Individuals' personality traits have been shown to influence their behavior during team work. In particular, positive group attitudes are said to be essential for distributed and global software development efforts where…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Sherlock A. Licorish , Stephen G. MacDonell