Psycho-linguistic Experiment on Universal Semantic Components of Verbal Humor: System Description and Annotation
This work addresses the challenge of defining objective criteria for humor in linguistics, but it appears incremental as it focuses on system description and data collection without clear breakthroughs.
The authors tackled the problem of identifying universal semantic components of verbal humor by developing a self-paced reading system for annotation, and they conducted a psycho-linguistic experiment to collect data on humorous versus non-humorous texts.
Objective criteria for universal semantic components that distinguish a humorous utterance from a non-humorous one are presently under debate. In this article, we give an in-depth observation of our system of self-paced reading for annotation of humor, that collects readers' annotations while they open a text word by word. The system registers keys that readers press to open the next word, choose a class (humorous versus non-humorous texts), change their choice. We also touch upon our psycho-linguistic experiment conducted with the system and the data collected during it.