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“So you think you're funny?”: Rating the humour quotient in standup comedy (arxiv.org)
2 points by pramodbiligiri on Oct 26, 2021 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Stand-up clips get a 0–4 funniness score from how long the audience laughs, and that trains a model to rate jokes from audio and text. Its ratings matched human judgments at 0.813 on a chance-corrected scale, better than the laughter labels used to train it.

Abstract · "So You Think You're Funny?": Rating the Humour Quotient in Standup Comedy

Computational Humour (CH) has attracted the interest of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics communities. Creating datasets for automatic measurement of humour quotient is difficult due to multiple possible interpretations of the content. In this work, we create a multi-modal humour-annotated dataset ($\sim$40 hours) using stand-up comedy clips. We devise a novel scoring mechanism to annotate the training data with a humour quotient score using the audience's laughter. The normalized duration (laughter duration divided by the clip duration) of laughter in each clip is used to compute this humour coefficient score on a five-point scale (0-4). This method of scoring is validated by comparing with manually annotated scores, wherein a quadratic weighted kappa of 0.6 is obtained. We use this dataset to train a model that provides a "funniness" score, on a five-point scale, given the audio and its corresponding text. We compare various neural language models for the task of humour-rating and achieve an accuracy of $0.813$ in terms of Quadratic Weighted Kappa (QWK). Our "Open Mic" dataset is released for further research along with the code.

Anirudh Mittal, Pranav Jeevan, Prerak Gandhi, Diptesh Kanojia, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
arXiv:2110.12765 · cs.CL, cs.AI · submitted Oct 25, 2021
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted at EMNLP 2021 Main Conference (short papers); 4 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables

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