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title = "abateam at {S}em{E}val-2026 Task 1: Plan2joke {--} Humor Policies for Type-Specific Two-Pass Humor Generation",
author = "Dikhtiar, Andrii and
Viter, Antonii and
Karaziia, Bohdan and
Dementieva, Daryna and
Fraser, Alexander",
editor = "Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Ghosh, Debanjan and
North, Kai and
Komachi, Mamoru",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th {I}nternational {W}orkshop on {S}emantic {E}valuation (2026)",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.295/",
pages = "2330--2346",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-414-9",
abstract = "Our work was inspired by several recent directions in computational humor and evaluation, including:- Baranov, Kniazhevsky, and Braslavski, ``You Told Me That Joke Twice: A Systematic Investigation of Transferability and Robustness of Humor Detection Models'' (2023).- Tikhonov and Shtykovskiy, ``Humor Mechanics: Advancing Humor Generation with Multistep Reasoning'' (2024).- Zhong, Huang, Gao, Wen, Lin, Zitnik, and Zhou, ``Let{'}s Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation'' (2023).At a high level, we designed a policy-driven humor generation approach covering multiple humor types. We used optimal humor recognition systems and a context enrichment strategy, as well as SFT training based on a dataset composed from previous research samples and adjusted for alignment with our humor policies. This allowed us to perform an ablation study of the approach and to calibrate our system."
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%A Dikhtiar, Andrii
%A Viter, Antonii
%A Karaziia, Bohdan
%A Dementieva, Daryna
%A Fraser, Alexander
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Ghosh, Debanjan
%Y North, Kai
%Y Komachi, Mamoru
%S Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, USA
%@ 979-8-89176-414-9
%F dikhtiar-etal-2026-abateam
%X Our work was inspired by several recent directions in computational humor and evaluation, including:- Baranov, Kniazhevsky, and Braslavski, “You Told Me That Joke Twice: A Systematic Investigation of Transferability and Robustness of Humor Detection Models” (2023).- Tikhonov and Shtykovskiy, “Humor Mechanics: Advancing Humor Generation with Multistep Reasoning” (2024).- Zhong, Huang, Gao, Wen, Lin, Zitnik, and Zhou, “Let’s Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation” (2023).At a high level, we designed a policy-driven humor generation approach covering multiple humor types. We used optimal humor recognition systems and a context enrichment strategy, as well as SFT training based on a dataset composed from previous research samples and adjusted for alignment with our humor policies. This allowed us to perform an ablation study of the approach and to calibrate our system.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.295/
%P 2330-2346
Markdown (Informal)
[abateam at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Plan2joke – Humor Policies for Type-Specific Two-Pass Humor Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.295/) (Dikhtiar et al., SemEval 2026)
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