UMUTeam at SemEval-2021 Task 7: Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense with Linguistic Features and Word Embeddings

José Antonio García-Díaz, Rafael Valencia-García


Abstract
In writing, humor is mainly based on figurative language in which words and expressions change their conventional meaning to refer to something without saying it directly. This flip in the meaning of the words prevents Natural Language Processing from revealing the real intention of a communication and, therefore, reduces the effectiveness of tasks such as Sentiment Analysis or Emotion Detection. In this manuscript we describe the participation of the UMUTeam in HaHackathon 2021, whose objective is to detect and rate humorous and controversial content. Our proposal is based on the combination of linguistic features with contextual and non-contextual word embeddings. We participate in all the proposed subtasks achieving our best result in the controversial humor subtask.
Anthology ID:
2021.semeval-1.152
Volume:
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Natalie Schluter, Guy Emerson, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
1096–1101
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.152
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.152
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Cite (ACL):
José Antonio García-Díaz and Rafael Valencia-García. 2021. UMUTeam at SemEval-2021 Task 7: Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense with Linguistic Features and Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 1096–1101, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
UMUTeam at SemEval-2021 Task 7: Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense with Linguistic Features and Word Embeddings (García-Díaz & Valencia-García, SemEval 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.152.pdf
Code
 smolky/hahackathon-2021