Making People Laugh like a Pro: Analysing Humor Through Stand-Up Comedy

Beatrice Turano, Carlo Strapparava


Abstract
The analysis of humor using computational tools has gained popularity in the past few years, and a lot of resources have been built for this purpose. However, most of these resources focus on standalone jokes or on occasional humorous sentences during presentations. In this paper I present a new dataset, SCRIPTS, built using stand-up comedy shows transcripts: the humor that this dataset collects is inserted in a larger narrative, composed of daily events made humorous by the ability of the comedian. This different perspective on the humor problem can allow us to think and study humor in a different way and possibly to open the path to new lines of research.
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2022.lrec-1.558
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
Year:
2022
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association
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5206–5211
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Beatrice Turano and Carlo Strapparava. 2022. Making People Laugh like a Pro: Analysing Humor Through Stand-Up Comedy. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 5206–5211, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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