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Arguments evoke emotions, influencing the effect of the argument itself. Not only the emotional intensity but also the category influence the argument's effects, for instance, the willingness to adapt stances. While binary emotionality has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Lynn Greschner , Roman Klinger

The use of generative AI to create text descriptions from graphs has mostly focused on knowledge graphs, which connect concepts using facts. In this work we explore the capability of large pretrained language models to generate text from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Atharva Phatak , Vijay K. Mago , Ameeta Agrawal , Aravind Inbasekaran , Philippe J. Giabbanelli

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

Humor is a substantial element of human social behavior, affect, and cognition. Its automatic understanding can facilitate a more naturalistic human-AI interaction. Current methods of humor detection have been exclusively based on staged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Lukas Christ , Shahin Amiriparian , Alexander Kathan , Niklas Müller , Andreas König , Björn W. Schuller

Designing Conversational AI systems to support older adults requires these systems to explain their behavior in ways that align with older adults' preferences and context. While prior work has emphasized the importance of AI explainability…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Niharika Mathur , Tamara Zubatiy , Agata Rozga , Jodi Forlizzi , Elizabeth Mynatt

Data annotation, the practice of assigning descriptive labels to raw data, is pivotal in optimizing the performance of machine learning models. However, it is a resource-intensive process susceptible to biases introduced by annotators. The…

Computational models for sarcasm detection have often relied on the content of utterances in isolation. However, the speaker's sarcastic intent is not always apparent without additional context. Focusing on social media discussions, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Debanjan Ghosh , Alexander R. Fabbri , Smaranda Muresan

Conversations emerge as the primary media for exchanging ideas and conceptions. From the listener's perspective, identifying various affective qualities, such as sarcasm, humour, and emotions, is paramount for comprehending the true…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Shivani Kumar , Ishani Mondal , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Densely annotated medical image datasets that capture not only diagnostic labels but also the underlying reasoning behind these diagnoses are scarce. Such reasoning-related annotations are essential for developing and evaluating explainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Luisa Gallée , Yiheng Xiong , Meinrad Beer , Michael Götz

As AI companions become capable of human-like communication, including telling jokes, understanding how people cognitively and emotionally respond to AI humor becomes increasingly important. This study used electroencephalography (EEG) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xiaohui Rao , Hanlin Wu , Zhenguang G. Cai

Emotional language generation is one of the keys to human-like artificial intelligence. Humans use different type of emotions depending on the situation of the conversation. Emotions also play an important role in mediating the engagement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sashank Santhanam , Samira Shaikh

Chat-based language models are designed to be helpful, yet they should not comply with every user request. While most existing work primarily focuses on refusal of "unsafe" queries, we posit that the scope of noncompliance should be…

Generating humor and quotes are very challenging problems in the field of computational linguistics and are often tackled separately. In this paper, we present a controlled Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture which is trained with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Bhargav Chippada , Shubajit Saha

Background: Humor is a fundamental part of human communication, with prior work linking positive humor in the workplace to positive outcomes, such as improved performance and job satisfaction. Aims: This study aims to investigate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Miikka Kuutila , Leevi Rantala , Junhao Li , Simo Hosio , Mika Mäntylä

Laughter is considered one of the most overt signals of joy. Laughter is well-recognized as a multimodal phenomenon but is most commonly detected by sensing the sound of laughter. It is unclear how perception and annotation of laughter…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jose Vargas-Quiros , Laura Cabrera-Quiros , Catharine Oertel , Hayley Hung

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

As short-form funny videos on social networks are gaining popularity, it becomes demanding for AI models to understand them for better communication with humans. Unfortunately, previous video humor datasets target specific domains, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Dayoon Ko , Sangho Lee , Gunhee Kim

Humor is a natural and fundamental component of human interactions. When correctly applied, humor allows us to express thoughts and feelings conveniently and effectively, increasing interpersonal affection, likeability, and trust. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Felipe Godoy

Humor is previously regarded as a gift exclusive to humans for the following reasons. Humor is a culturally nuanced aspect of human language, presenting challenges for its understanding and generation. Humor generation necessitates a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Han Wang , Yilin Zhao , Dian Li , Xiaohan Wang , Gang Liu , Xuguang Lan , Hui Wang

Recent multimodal large language models have shown promising ability in generating humorous captions for images, yet they still lack stable control over explicit cultural context, making it difficult to jointly maintain image relevance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Run Xu , Lu Li , Rongzhao Zhang , Jie Xu