CLApr 27, 2017

Duluth at SemEval-2017 Task 6: Language Models in Humor Detection

arXiv:1704.08390v122 citations
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This is an incremental approach applying existing methods to a new dataset in computational humor.

The paper tackled humor detection in social media by participating in SemEval-2017 Task 6, using N-gram language models to achieve high rankings in the evaluation.

This paper describes the Duluth system that participated in SemEval-2017 Task 6 #HashtagWars: Learning a Sense of Humor. The system participated in Subtasks A and B using N-gram language models, ranking highly in the task evaluation. This paper discusses the results of our system in the development and evaluation stages and from two post-evaluation runs.

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