Duluth at SemEval-2017 Task 6: Language Models in Humor Detection

Xinru Yan, Ted Pedersen


Abstract
This paper describes the Duluth system that participated in SemEval-2017 Task 6 #HashtagWars: Learning a Sense of Humor. The system participated in Subtasks A and B using N-gram language models, ranking highly in the task evaluation. This paper discusses the results of our system in the development and evaluation stages and from two post-evaluation runs.
Anthology ID:
S17-2064
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
Month:
August
Year:
2017
Address:
Vancouver, Canada
Editors:
Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
385–389
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S17-2064
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-2064
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Cite (ACL):
Xinru Yan and Ted Pedersen. 2017. Duluth at SemEval-2017 Task 6: Language Models in Humor Detection. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), pages 385–389, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Duluth at SemEval-2017 Task 6: Language Models in Humor Detection (Yan & Pedersen, SemEval 2017)
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