What makes us laugh? Investigations into Automatic Humor Classification

Vikram Ahuja, Taradheesh Bali, Navjyoti Singh


Abstract
Most scholarly works in the field of computational detection of humour derive their inspiration from the incongruity theory. Incongruity is an indispensable facet in drawing a line between humorous and non-humorous occurrences but is immensely inadequate in shedding light on what actually made the particular occurrence a funny one. Classical theories like Script-based Semantic Theory of Humour and General Verbal Theory of Humour try and achieve this feat to an adequate extent. In this paper we adhere to a more holistic approach towards classification of humour based on these classical theories with a few improvements and revisions. Through experiments based on our linear approach and performed on large data-sets of jokes, we are able to demonstrate the adaptability and show componentizability of our model, and that a host of classification techniques can be used to overcome the challenging problem of distinguishing between various categories and sub-categories of jokes.
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W18-1101
Volume:
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Modeling of People’s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media
Month:
June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Editors:
Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti, Barbara Plank, Claudia Wagner
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PEOPLES
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1–9
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-1101
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-1101
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Vikram Ahuja, Taradheesh Bali, and Navjyoti Singh. 2018. What makes us laugh? Investigations into Automatic Humor Classification. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Modeling of People’s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media, pages 1–9, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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What makes us laugh? Investigations into Automatic Humor Classification (Ahuja et al., PEOPLES 2018)
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