no code implementations • 23 Aug 2022 • J. A. Meaney, Steven R. Wilson, Luis Chiruzzo, Walid Magdy
Computational humor detection systems rarely model the subjectivity of humor responses, or consider alternative reactions to humor - namely offense.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2021 • J. A. Meaney, Steven Wilson, Luis Chiruzzo, Adam Lopez, Walid Magdy
Our subtasks were binary humor detection, prediction of humor and offense ratings, and a novel controversy task: to predict if the variance in the humor ratings was higher than a specific threshold.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2020 • J. A. Meaney, Steven Wilson, Walid Magdy
The use of pre-trained language models such as BERT and ULMFiT has become increasingly popular in shared tasks, due to their powerful language modelling capabilities.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • J. A. Meaney
Recent humor classification shared tasks have struggled with two issues: either the data comprises a highly constrained genre of humor which does not broadly represent humor, or the data is so indiscriminate that the inter-annotator agreement on its humor content is drastically low.