"A good pun is its own reword": Can Large Language Models Understand Puns?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13599v2
• Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:31:18 GMT
• Title: "A good pun is its own reword": Can Large Language Models Understand Puns?
• Authors: Zhijun Xu, Siyu Yuan, Lingjie Chen, Deqing Yang,
• Abstract summary: Puns play a vital role in academic research due to their distinct structure and clear definition. The understanding of puns in large language models (LLMs) has not been thoroughly examined.
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• Abstract: Puns play a vital role in academic research due to their distinct structure and clear definition, which aid in the comprehensive analysis of linguistic humor. However, the understanding of puns in large language models (LLMs) has not been thoroughly examined, limiting their use in creative writing and humor creation. In this paper, we leverage three popular tasks, i.e., pun recognition, explanation and generation to systematically evaluate the capabilities of LLMs in pun understanding. In addition to adopting the automated evaluation metrics from prior research, we introduce new evaluation methods and metrics that are better suited to the in-context learning paradigm of LLMs. These new metrics offer a more rigorous assessment of an LLM's ability to understand puns and align more closely with human cognition than previous metrics. Our findings reveal the "lazy pun generation" pattern and identify the primary challenges LLMs encounter in understanding puns.

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