Predicting the Humorousness of Tweets Using Gaussian Process Preference Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00853v2
• Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:30:50 GMT
• Title: Predicting the Humorousness of Tweets Using Gaussian Process Preference Learning
• Authors: Tristan Miller, Erik-L\^an Do Dinh, Edwin Simpson and Iryna Gurevych
• Abstract summary: We present a probabilistic approach that learns to rank and rate the humorousness of short texts by exploiting human preference judgments and automatically sourced linguistic annotations. We report system performance for the campaign's two subtasks, humour detection and funniness score prediction, and discuss some issues arising from the conversion between the numeric scores used in the HAHA@IberLEF 2019 data and the pairwise judgment annotations required for our method.
• Score: 56.18809963342249
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Most humour processing systems to date make at best discrete, coarse-grained distinctions between the comical and the conventional, yet such notions are better conceptualized as a broad spectrum. In this paper, we present a probabilistic approach, a variant of Gaussian process preference learning (GPPL), that learns to rank and rate the humorousness of short texts by exploiting human preference judgments and automatically sourced linguistic annotations. We apply our system, which is similar to one that had previously shown good performance on English-language one-liners annotated with pairwise humorousness annotations, to the Spanish-language data set of the HAHA@IberLEF2019 evaluation campaign. We report system performance for the campaign's two subtasks, humour detection and funniness score prediction, and discuss some issues arising from the conversion between the numeric scores used in the HAHA@IberLEF2019 data and the pairwise judgment annotations required for our method.

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