arXiv:2606. 00022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humor generation remains difficult not only because producing fluent, novel jokes is hard, but because "funny" is audience-dependent and supervision is noisy -- preferences vary with audience, context, and culture, and annotator agreement is often low.
By Alexey Tikhonov, Alexey Ivanov
arXiv:2604.09629v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Humor generation poses a significant challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs), because their standard training objective (next-token prediction)...
By Edward Ajayi, Prasenjit Mitra
The paper investigates how semantic distance and ambiguity contribute to joke humor by revisiting and extending metrics from prior work. It introduces a new symmetry metric—measuring how close the ambiguous element Z is to both X and Y—and evaluates it using two embedding models on three joke datasets, including expanded versions with paired ambiguous sentences. Although models based on these metrics performed poorly in predicting humor ratings, the symmetry metric consistently correlated with higher-rated jokes, hinting it captures a key, though not sole, property of humor.
By Fabio De Ponte
arXiv:2507. 06506v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Translating wordplay across languages presents unique challenges that have long confounded both professional human translators and machine translation systems.
By Russell Taylor, Benjamin Herbert, Michael Sana
arXiv:2609.15618v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Our team, VANGUARD, presents IROH (Insightful Ranking of Humor), a three-stage retrieval system for JOKER Task 1 English at CLEF 2026, achieving firs...
By Ana-Maria Luisa Mocanu, Sebastian Mocanu, Ciprian-Octavian Truic\u{a}, Elena-Simona Apostol
arXiv:2609.18156v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Teochew has a substantial speaker community and exhibits distinctive lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic features, yet textual resources for evaluating l...
By Jianan Wu