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Humor is a central aspect of human communication that has not been solved for artificial agents so far. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly able to capture implicit and contextual information. Especially, OpenAI's ChatGPT recently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Sophie Jentzsch , Kristian Kersting

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

Recent claims suggest that large language models (LMs) underperform humans in comprehending minimally complex English statements (Dentella et al., 2024). Here, we revisit those findings and argue that human performance was overestimated,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Adele E Goldberg , Supantho Rakshit , Jennifer Hu , Kyle Mahowald

Large language models (LLMs) are currently at the forefront of intertwining AI systems with human communication and everyday life. Therefore, it is of great importance to evaluate their emerging abilities. In this study, we show that LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Thilo Hagendorff , Sarah Fabi , Michal Kosinski

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of Natural Language Processing thanks to their ability to reuse knowledge acquired on massive text corpora on a wide variety of downstream tasks, with minimal (if any) tuning steps.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Flavio Petruzzellis , Alberto Testolin , Alessandro Sperduti

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into everyday life as general purpose multimodal AI systems, their capabilities to simulate human understanding are under examination. This study investigates LLMs ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ljubisa Bojic , Predrag Kovacevic , Milan Cabarkapa

This paper investigates the problem-solving capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by evaluating their performance on stumpers, unique single-step intuition problems that pose challenges for human solvers but are easily verifiable. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Alon Goldstein , Miriam Havin , Roi Reichart , Ariel Goldstein

The creation and perception of humour is a fundamental human trait, positioning its computational understanding as one of the most challenging tasks in natural language processing (NLP). As an abstract, creative, and frequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Tyler Loakman , William Thorne , Chenghua Lin

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

Large language models generate judgments that resemble those of humans. Yet the extent to which these models align with human judgments in interpreting figurative and socially grounded language remains uncertain. To investigate this, human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Samhita Bollepally , Aurora Sloman-Moll , Takashi Yamauchi

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

Large Language Models (LLM) have recently been shown to perform well at various tasks from language understanding, reasoning, storytelling, and information search to theory of mind. In an extension of this work, we explore the ability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Nutchanon Yongsatianchot , Tobias Thejll-Madsen , Stacy Marsella

Humor understanding is an important and challenging research in natural language processing. As the popularity of pre-trained language models (PLMs), some recent work makes preliminary attempts to adopt PLMs for humor recognition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuyan Chen , Zhixu Li , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Bang Liu , Yunwen Chen

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have shown significant advancements across diverse natural language understanding (NLU) tasks, including intelligent dialogue and autonomous agents. Yet, lacking widely acknowledged testing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jinyang Wu , Feihu Che , Xinxin Zheng , Shuai Zhang , Ruihan Jin , Shuai Nie , Pengpeng Shao , Jianhua Tao

Emojis have become a universal language in online communication, often carrying nuanced and context-dependent meanings. Among these, irony poses a significant challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs) due to its inherent incongruity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yawen Zheng , Hanjia Lyu , Jiebo Luo

Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-3 and GPT-4, have demonstrated exceptional performance in various natural language processing tasks and have shown the ability to solve certain reasoning problems. However, their reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Adam Ishay , Zhun Yang , Joohyung Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT demonstrated the potential to replicate human language abilities through technology, ranging from text generation to engaging in conversations. However, it remains controversial to what extent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Martin Schuele

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit expert-level performance in tasks across a wide range of different domains. Ethical issues raised by LLMs and the need to align future versions makes it important to know how state of the art models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Guilherme F. C. F. Almeida , José Luiz Nunes , Neele Engelmann , Alex Wiegmann , Marcelo de Araújo

The role-play ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a popular research direction. However, existing studies focus on imitating well-known public figures or fictional characters, overlooking the potential for simulating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Man Tik Ng , Hui Tung Tse , Jen-tse Huang , Jingjing Li , Wenxuan Wang , Michael R. Lyu

Recent advances in the performance of large language models (LLMs) have sparked debate over whether, given sufficient training, high-level human abilities emerge in such generic forms of artificial intelligence (AI). Despite the exceptional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Nicholas Ichien , Dušan Stamenković , Keith J. Holyoak
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