FunnyBorg at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation

Ștefan Oprea; Lacrimioara Toma Oprea; Maria Paval-Istrate; Diana Trandabat; Daniela Gifu

FunnyBorg at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation

Stefan Oprea, Lacrimioara Toma Oprea, Maria Paval-Istrate, Diana Trandabat, Daniela Gifu

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Our team competed in the SemEval-2026 Task1: MWAHAHA: Humor Generation. This isa task for generation of computational humor.The generated jokes are text-based, but alsoinclude memes, for captioning an image. Ourapproach involved prompt engineering using avoting system. We obtained rank 1 in one ofthe subtasks, and rank 2 in three other subtasks.

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Volume:: Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
Month:: July
Year:: 2026
Address:: San Diego, California, USA
Editors:: Ekaterina Kochmar, Debanjan Ghosh, Kai North, Mamoru Komachi
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Cite (ACL):: Stefan Oprea, Lacrimioara Toma Oprea, Maria Paval-Istrate, Diana Trandabat, and Daniela Gifu. 2026. FunnyBorg at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026), pages 3446–3448, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[FunnyBorg at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.427/) (Oprea et al., SemEval 2026)

FunnyBorg at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation (Oprea et al., SemEval 2026)

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Stefan Oprea, Lacrimioara Toma Oprea, Maria Paval-Istrate, Diana Trandabat, and Daniela Gifu. 2026. FunnyBorg at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026), pages 3446–3448, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.