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Previous work on pun generation commonly begins with a given pun word (a pair of homophones for heterographic pun generation and a polyseme for homographic pun generation) and seeks to generate an appropriate pun. While this may enable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jiao Sun , Anjali Narayan-Chen , Shereen Oraby , Shuyang Gao , Tagyoung Chung , Jing Huang , Yang Liu , Nanyun Peng

In this paper, we focus on the task of generating a pun sentence given a pair of word senses. A major challenge for pun generation is the lack of large-scale pun corpus to guide the supervised learning. To remedy this, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Fuli Luo , Shunyao Li , Pengcheng Yang , Lei li , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui , Xu Sun

The tasks of humor understanding and generation are challenging and subjective even for humans, requiring commonsense and real-world knowledge to master. Puns, in particular, add the challenge of fusing that knowledge with the ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jiao Sun , Anjali Narayan-Chen , Shereen Oraby , Alessandra Cervone , Tagyoung Chung , Jing Huang , Yang Liu , Nanyun Peng

Well-defined jokes can be divided neatly into a setup and a punchline. While most works on humor today talk about a joke as a whole, the idea of generating punchlines to a setup has applications in conversational humor, where funny remarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Tanishq Chaudhary , Mayank Goel , Radhika Mamidi

Puns play a vital role in academic research due to their distinct structure and clear definition, which aid in the comprehensive analysis of linguistic humor. However, the understanding of puns in large language models (LLMs) has not been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhijun Xu , Siyu Yuan , Lingjie Chen , Deqing Yang

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

Humor, a culturally nuanced aspect of human language, poses challenges for computational understanding and generation, especially in Chinese humor, which remains relatively unexplored in the NLP community. This paper investigates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Rongwu Xu

Puns are a common form of rhetorical wordplay that exploits polysemy and phonetic similarity to create humor. In multimodal puns, visual and textual elements synergize to ground the literal sense and evoke the figurative meaning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Naen Xu , Jiayi Sheng , Changjiang Li , Chunyi Zhou , Yuyuan Li , Tianyu Du , Jun Wang , Zhihui Fu , Jinbao Li , Shouling Ji

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

Puns are a form of humorous wordplay that exploits polysemy and phonetic similarity. While LLMs have shown promise in detecting puns, we show in this paper that their understanding often remains shallow, lacking the nuanced grasp typical of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alessandro Zangari , Matteo Marcuzzo , Andrea Albarelli , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar , Jose Camacho-Collados

Ironies can not only express stronger emotions but also show a sense of humor. With the development of social media, ironies are widely used in public. Although many prior research studies have been conducted in irony detection, few studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Mengdi Zhu , Zhiwei Yu , Xiaojun Wan

In this paper, we explore the generation of one-liner jokes through multi-step reasoning. Our work involved reconstructing the process behind creating humorous one-liners and developing a working prototype for humor generation. We conducted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Alexey Tikhonov , Pavel Shtykovskiy

Natural language counterfactual generation aims to minimally modify a given text such that the modified text will be classified into a different class. The generated counterfactuals provide insight into the reasoning behind a model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yongjie Wang , Xiaoqi Qiu , Yu Yue , Xu Guo , Zhiwei Zeng , Yuhong Feng , Zhiqi Shen

Humor generation is a challenging task in natural language processing due to limited resources and the quality of existing datasets. Available humor language resources often suffer from toxicity and duplication, limiting their effectiveness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Dmitry Vikhorev , Daria Galimzianova , Svetlana Gorovaia , Elizaveta Zhemchuzhina , Ivan P. Yamshchikov

Reusing existing datasets is of considerable significance to researchers and developers. Dataset search engines help a user find relevant datasets for reuse. They can present a snippet for each retrieved dataset to explain its relevance to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Xiaxia Wang , Jinchi Chen , Shuxin Li , Gong Cheng , Jeff Z. Pan , Evgeny Kharlamov , Yuzhong Qu

Over the years, performance evaluation has become essential in computer vision, enabling tangible progress in many sub-fields. While talking-head video generation has become an emerging research topic, existing evaluations on this topic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Lele Chen , Guofeng Cui , Ziyi Kou , Haitian Zheng , Chenliang Xu

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly enhanced generative AI capabilities across text, images, and audio. However, automatically evaluating the quality of these generated outputs presents ongoing challenges. Although numerous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Tian Lan , Yang-Hao Zhou , Zi-Ao Ma , Fanshu Sun , Rui-Qing Sun , Junyu Luo , Rong-Cheng Tu , Heyan Huang , Chen Xu , Zhijing Wu , Xian-Ling Mao

Many recent advances in natural language generation have been fueled by training large language models on internet-scale data. However, this paradigm can lead to models that generate toxic, inaccurate, and unhelpful content, and automatic…

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

Recent advances in neural network-based generative modeling have reignited the hopes in having computer systems capable of seamlessly conversing with humans and able to understand natural language. Neural architectures have been employed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Cristina Garbacea , Qiaozhu Mei
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