As linguistic phenomena that showcase the richness and complexity of human language,
puns pose significant challenges to natural language processing (NLP) systems. The …

Despite recent advances in information retrieval and natural language processing, rhetorical
devices that exploit ambiguity or subvert linguistic rules remain a challenge for such …

While humour and wordplay are among the most intensively studied problems in the field of
translation studies, they have been almost completely ignored in machine translation. This is …

Humor is a substantial element of human social behavior, affect, and cognition. Its automatic
understanding can facilitate a more naturalistic human-AI interaction. Current methods of …

The task of humor recognition has attracted a lot of attention recently due to the urge to
process large amounts of user-generated texts and rise of conversational agents. We …

Computational humor recognition is considered to be one of the hardest tasks in natural
language processing (NLP) since humor is such a particularly complex emotion. There are …

While humor has been historically studied from a psychological, cognitive and linguistic
standpoint, its study from a computational perspective is an area yet to be explored in …

The translation of the pun is one of the most challenging issues for translators and for this
reason has become an intensively studied phenomenon in the field of translation studies …

Humour remains one of the most difficult aspects of intercultural communication:
understanding humour often requires understanding implicit cultural references and/or …

Humor is one of the most common and attractive expressions in our daily life. It is usually
witty and funny. Humor recognition is an interesting but difficult task in natural language …