We describe the fifth edition of the CheckThat! lab, part of the 2022 Conference and Labs of
the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting tasks related to …

Humor is a central aspect of human communication that has not been solved for artificial
agents so far. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly able to capture implicit and …

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 success of language models has inspired the NLP community to attend to tasks that
require implicit and complex reasoning, relying on human-like commonsense mechanisms …

Feature Engineering consists in the application of domain knowledge to select and
transform relevant features to build efficient machine learning models. In the Natural …

Hate speech should be tackled and prosecuted based on how it is operationalized.
However, the existing theoretical definitions of hate speech are not sufficiently fleshed out or …

Social science NLP tasks, such as emotion or humor detection, are required to capture the
semantics along with the implicit pragmatics from text, often with limited amounts of training …

Instead of using a single ground truth for language processing tasks, several recent studies
have examined how to represent and predict the labels of the set of annotators. However …