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Machine Learning Model Generates Hitler's Ethnic Cleansing as Humor (arxiv.org)
2 points by icoxfog417 on Jul 3, 2020 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: Given the set-up of a joke, this system pulls in outside facts and weaves them into a model that writes the punchline, instead of filling in templates or swapping phrases. It produced punchlines that were fluent and funnier than earlier systems.

Abstract · Let's be Humorous: Knowledge Enhanced Humor Generation

The generation of humor is an under-explored and challenging problem. Previous works mainly utilize templates or replace phrases to generate humor. However, few works focus on freer forms and the background knowledge of humor. The linguistic theory of humor defines the structure of a humor sentence as set-up and punchline. In this paper, we explore how to generate a punchline given the set-up with the relevant knowledge. We propose a framework that can fuse the knowledge to end-to-end models. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to generate punchlines with knowledge enhanced model. Furthermore, we create the first humor-knowledge dataset. The experimental results demonstrate that our method can make use of knowledge to generate fluent, funny punchlines, which outperforms several baselines.

Hang Zhang, Dayiheng Liu, Jiancheng Lv, Cheng Luo
arXiv:2004.13317 · cs.CL · submitted Apr 28, 2020 · updated Jul 4, 2020
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I'm very sad as one of the machine learning engineers and surprised that this paper is accepted ACL2020. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-srw.21/