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Humor is an inherently social phenomenon, with humorous utterances shaped by what is socially and culturally accepted. Understanding humor is an important NLP challenge, with many applications to human-computer interactions. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Dan Ofer , Dafna Shahaf

While humor is often thought to be beyond the reach of Natural Language Processing, we show that several aspects of single-word humor correlate with simple linear directions in Word Embeddings. In particular: (a) the word vectors capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Limor Gultchin , Genevieve Patterson , Nancy Baym , Nathaniel Swinger , Adam Tauman Kalai

The automatic evaluation of LLM-based agent intelligence is critical in developing advanced LLM-based agents. Although considerable effort has been devoted to developing human-annotated evaluation datasets, such as AlpacaEval, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tian Liang , Zhiwei He , Jen-tse Huang , Wenxuan Wang , Wenxiang Jiao , Rui Wang , Yujiu Yang , Zhaopeng Tu , Shuming Shi , Xing Wang

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

A previous paper presented Witscript, a system for generating conversational jokes that rely on wordplay. This paper extends that work by presenting Witscript 2, which uses a large language model to generate conversational jokes that rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Joe Toplyn

On social media platforms, hateful and offensive language negatively impact the mental well-being of users and the participation of people from diverse backgrounds. Automatic methods to detect offensive language have largely relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Rishav Hada , Sohi Sudhir , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Saif M. Mohammad , Ekaterina Shutova

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

Humor is an essential human trait. Efforts to understand humor have called out links between humor and the foundations of cognition, as well as the importance of humor in social engagement. As such, it is a promising and important subject…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Robert West , Eric Horvitz

Humorous memes blend visual and textual cues to convey irony, satire, or social commentary, posing unique challenges for AI systems that must interpret intent rather than surface correlations. Existing multimodal or prompting-based models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Olivia Shanhong Liu , Pai Chet Ng , De Wen Soh , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

In recent years, the gamification research community has widely and frequently questioned the effectiveness of one-size-fits-all gamification schemes. In consequence, personalization seems to be an important part of any successful…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Reza Hadi Mogavi , Chao Deng , Jennifer Hoffman , Ehsan-Ul Haq , Sujit Gujar , Antonio Bucchiarone , Pan Hui

Wordle is a single-player word-guessing game where the goal is to discover a secret word $w$ that has been chosen from a dictionary $D$. In order to discover $w$, the player can make at most $\ell$ guesses, which must also be words from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Daniel Lokshtanov , Bernardo Subercaseaux

At the beginning of 2022, a simplistic word-guessing game took the world by storm and was further adapted to many languages beyond the original English version. In this paper, we examine the strategies of daily word-guessing game players…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Matīss Rikters , Sanita Reinsone

Wit is a form of rich interaction that is often grounded in a specific situation (e.g., a comment in response to an event). In this work, we attempt to build computational models that can produce witty descriptions for a given image.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Arjun Chandrasekaran , Devi Parikh , Mohit Bansal

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

Wargames are simulations of conflicts in which participants' decisions influence future events. While casual wargaming can be used for entertainment or socialization, serious wargaming is used by experts to explore strategic implications of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Glenn Matlin , Parv Mahajan , Isaac Song , Yixiong Hao , Ryan Bard , Stu Topp , Evan Montoya , M. Rehan Parwani , Soham Shetty , Mark Riedl

Popularity systems, like Twitter retweets, Reddit upvotes, and Pinterest pins have the potential to guide people toward posts that others liked. That, however, creates a feedback loop that reduces their informativeness: items marked as more…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Maria Glenski , Greg Stoddard , Paul Resnick , Tim Weninger

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

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

Online game forums are popular to most of game players. They use it to communicate and discuss the strategy of the game, or even to make friends. However, game forums also contain abusive and harassment speech, disturbing and threatening…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hanh Hong-Phuc Vo , Hieu Trung Tran , Son T. Luu

Humor is a fundamental facet of human cognition and interaction. Yet, despite recent advances in natural language processing, humor detection remains a challenging task that is complicated by the scarcity of datasets that pair humorous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Zachary Horvitz , Jingru Chen , Rahul Aditya , Harshvardhan Srivastava , Robert West , Zhou Yu , Kathleen McKeown