Transfer Learning for Humor Detection by Twin Masked Yellow Muppets

Aseem Arora, Gaël Dias, Adam Jatowt, Asif Ekbal


Abstract
Humorous texts can be of different forms such as punchlines, puns, or funny stories. Existing humor classification systems have been dealing with such diverse forms by treating them independently. In this paper, we argue that different forms of humor share a common background either in terms of vocabulary or constructs. As a consequence, it is likely that classification performance can be improved by jointly tackling different humor types. Hence, we design a shared-private multitask architecture following a transfer learning paradigm and perform experiments over four gold standard datasets. Empirical results steadily confirm our hypothesis by demonstrating statistically-significant improvements over baselines and accounting for new state-of-the-art figures for two datasets.
Anthology ID:
2022.aacl-short.1
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
November
Year:
2022
Address:
Online only
Editors:
Yulan He, Heng Ji, Sujian Li, Yang Liu, Chua-Hui Chang
Venues:
AACL | IJCNLP
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
1–7
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.aacl-short.1
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Aseem Arora, Gaël Dias, Adam Jatowt, and Asif Ekbal. 2022. Transfer Learning for Humor Detection by Twin Masked Yellow Muppets. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 1–7, Online only. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Transfer Learning for Humor Detection by Twin Masked Yellow Muppets (Arora et al., AACL-IJCNLP 2022)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.aacl-short.1.pdf