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 paper, 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 apriori known baselines.
In early work, Mihalcea and Strapparava REF investigate whether classification techniques can distinguish between humorous and non-humorous text.
Making Computers Laugh: Investigations In Automatic Humor Recognition
Human Language Technology Conference And Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing
Computer Science