Rule-based Approaches to the Automatic Generation of Puns Based on Given Names in French

Mathieu Dehouck, Marine Delaborde


Abstract
Humor is a cornerstone of human interactions. Because puns and word plays lie in the margins of phonology, syntax and semantics, large language models struggle with their generation. In this paper, we present two versions of a tool designed to create a typical kind of French jokes known as “Monsieur et Madame” jokes. We then discuss the main challenges and limitations rule based systems face when creating this kind of puns.
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2025.chum-1.3
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum)
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January
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2025
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Online
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Christian F. Hempelmann, Julia Rayz, Tiansi Dong, Tristan Miller
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chum | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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18–22
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Mathieu Dehouck and Marine Delaborde. 2025. Rule-based Approaches to the Automatic Generation of Puns Based on Given Names in French. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum), pages 18–22, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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