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A Pinch of Humor for Short-Text Conversation: An Information Retrieval Approach
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The paper describes a work in progress on humorous response generation for short-text conversation using information retrieval approach. We gathered a large collection of funny tweets and implemented three baseline retrieval models: BM25, the query term reweighting model based on syntactic parsing and named entity recognition, and the doc2vec similarity model. We evaluated these models in two ways: in situ on a popular community question answering platform and in laboratory settings. The approach proved to be promising: even simple search techniques demonstrated satisfactory performance. The collection, test questions, evaluation protocol, and assessors' judgments create a ground for future research towards more sophisticated models.
Natalia G. Milashchenko, Journal of Siberian Federal University. Series: Humanities & Social Sciences 2025 Vol. 18 No. 10 P. 1981–1991
This study explores the employment of intertextual elements in editorial cartoons. The purpose of this research is to compare and contrast the types of precedent phenomena that are used to create British and American political cartoons addressing immigration issues. To this end, the sample of 50 British and 50 American graphical texts published by quality ...
Added: September 22, 2025
Krongauz M., Критика и семиотика 2024 № 1 С. 112–137
The article describes the mechanisms of humor in small poetic genres that appeared on the Internet in the 2000s and were named pirozhok and poroshok. These are quatrains written in iambic tetrameter. There are no rhymes in pirozhok, but in poroshok the last line, truncated to 2 syllables, rhymes with the second. Poroshok as a ...
Added: April 28, 2025
Филиппова М. Г., Sherbakova O., Shtyrov Y., Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology 2020 Vol. 50 No. 3 P. 306–314
Perceptual information is often ambiguous and we have to deal with such ambiguity to ensure optimal behavior; yet, the mechanisms that our brain uses for processing ambiguous stimuli are not well understood. In the current study, we tested whether there were any common markers of neural processing of ambiguity, regardless of its type. To this ...
Added: April 2, 2025
Lifshits A., Менцин Ю. Л., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 8: История 2023 Т. 64 № 5 С. 94–107
There are many examples illustrating the wit of scientists, their penchant for jokes. One such example is the comic poem "The Song of the Refractor" by the Berlin student Benno Messow (1898), which imitates the famous poem "The Song of the Bell" by Friedrich Schiller. The text of this work, found in the archives of ...
Added: February 14, 2024
Манукян Я. А., Trofimova N., Научный диалог 2022 Т. 11 № 6 С. 218–234
Verbal means of reflecting the situation of the coronavirus pandemic through the prism of German humor are considered. The relevance of the study is due to the interest of modern language science in the study of discourses as a kind of markers of linguistic consciousness and speech behavior. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that German humorous ...
Added: December 11, 2022
Gulyaev P., Titkova V., Khodorenko D. K. et al., ИНТЕРакция. ИНТЕРвью. ИНТЕРпретация 2021 Т. 13 № 3 С. 112–129
All of us cannot imagine adolescents’ daily communication without humor and making fun of each other. Jokes can help strengthen friendships, smooth out the awkwardness, or maintain status in the group, but sometimes jokes become a means of humiliation and bullying. Despite many studies, determining the demarcation line between comic and aggressive words is quite ...
Added: September 30, 2021
Lin F., Lee H., Kuo W. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2021 Vol. 11 Article 547353
While univariate functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data analysis methods have been utilized successfully to map brain areas associated with cognitive and emotional functions during viewing of naturalistic stimuli such as movies, multivariate methods might provide the means to study how brain structures act in concert as networks during free viewing of movie clips. Here, ...
Added: March 10, 2021
Logacheva E., Plakhotnik M. S., Industrial and Commercial Training 2021 Vol. 53 No. 3 P. 237–249
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of humor work climate on innovative work behavior of back-office employees in the banking industry in Russia.Data was collected via an online survey that included scales to measure humor climate and innovative work behavior. The survey was distributed electronically among employees of one department of ...
Added: January 27, 2021
Bolotova V., Blinov V., Mishchenko K. et al., , in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог» (Москва, 31 мая — 3 июня 2017 г.). Вып. 16 (23): В 2 т.Т. 1.: М.: Изд-во РГГУ, 2017. P. 29–41.
This paper describes experiments on humorous response generation for short text conversations. Firstly, we compiled a collection of 63,000 jokes from online social networks (VK and Twitter). Secondly, we implemented several context-aware joke retrieval models: BM25 as a baseline, query term reweighting, word2vec-based model, and learning-to-rank approach with multiple features. Finally, we evaluated these models ...
Added: November 9, 2018
Braslavski P., Blinov V., Bolotova V. et al., , in: CHIIR '18 Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval.: ACM, 2018. P. 225–228.
Nowadays natural language user interfaces, such as chatbots and conversational agents, are very common. A desirable trait of such applications is a sense of humor. It is, therefore, important to be able to measure quality of humorous responses. However, humor evaluation is hard since humor is highly subjective. To address this problem, we conducted an ...
Added: November 9, 2018
Ermilov A., Murashkina N., Goryacheva V. et al., , in: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language, 7th International Conference, AINL 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia, October 17–19, 2018, ProceedingsIssue 930.: Switzerland: Springer, 2018. P. 178–184.
In this paper, we investigate the problem of the humor detection for Russian language. For experiments, we used a large collection of jokes from social media and a contrast collection of non-funny sentences, as well as a small collection of puns. We implemented a large set of features and trained several SVM classifiers. The results ...
Added: November 9, 2018
Щербакова О. В., Образцова В. С., Грабовая Е. В. et al., Вопросы психологии 2018 № 4 С. 92–102
The paper describes the results of a comparative analysis of humor comprehension in healthy people (N=39) and patients with mental disorders (N=31): schizophrenia and schizotypal disorders (N=19) and affective disorders (N=12). A set of seven verbal jokes was administered to the participants individually and followed by in-depth semi-structured interview in order to reveal the levels ...
Added: November 1, 2018
Sanina A., , in: Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2018).: Cham: Springer, 2018.
The article covers issues of irony and humor development that can provide an idea of the nonlinear, rhizome characteristics of a modern culture that lacks distinct borders. Their daily usage leads to what were traditionally considered exclusive categories (power, sexuality, and death) now playing the roles of cultural categories that heuristically describe modern social situations. Irony ...
Added: January 29, 2018
Apresyan V., Variations, Literaturzeitschrift der Universität Zürich 2017 Vol. 25 P. 41–56
The Incongruity Theory of Humor in its different forms states that the cause of laughter is the perception of something that violates our mental patterns and expectations. It seems particularly true of comic absurdity which is based on a deadpan violation of established norms of logic and convention. The current paper explores linguistic mechanisms that ...
Added: November 14, 2017
Isopeskul O., Управление корпоративной культурой 2014 № 4 С. 284–294
In this article the author represents different approaches to humor interpretation and shows own classification that consists of organizational humor kinds. This classification brings the correspondence with types of organizational culture. ...
Added: January 13, 2015
Khitrov A., Topos (Философско-культурологический журнал) 2012 Vol. 2 P. 153–167
In this paper the author analyses the materials that were pub- lished in the American satirical magazine The Onion in the period from 2006 till 2011 and mentioned September 11 terrorist attacks. The focus of the research is the persistence of 9/11 jokes five years after the tragedy occurred and later on. The jokes are classified basing ...
Added: July 31, 2013
Tarasenko A. S., , in: World of Media 2011. Yearbook of Russian Media and Journalism Studies.: M.: Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2011. P. 209–223.
The main stages in the development of prime-time entertainment on the national channels are described. The focus is on the four dominant formats which sequentially replaced one another throughout the 2000s. The processes thereby one format is displaced by another from prime time are examined. Basing on Yu. N. Tynyanov’s theory of literary genres evolution ...
Added: November 23, 2012