LEARNING TO LAUGH (AUTOMATICALLY): COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR HUMOR RECOGNITION

Authors: Mihalcea, Rada¹; Strapparava, Carlo²

Source: Computational Intelligence, Volume 22, Number 2, May 2006 , pp. 126-142(17)

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Abstract:

Humor is one of the most interesting and puzzling aspects of human behavior. Despite the attention it has received in fields such as philosophy, linguistics, and psychology, there have been only few attempts to create computational models for humor recognition or generation. In this article, we bring empirical evidence that computational approaches can be successfully applied to the task of humor recognition. Through experiments performed on very large data sets, we show that automatic classification techniques can be effectively used to distinguish between humorous and non-humorous texts, with significant improvements observed over a priori known baselines.

Keywords: computational humor; humor recognition; sentiment analysis; one-liners

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8640.2006.00278.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203 2: ITC – irst, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, I-38050, Povo, Trento, Italy

Publication date: 2006-05-01