Towards Generation and Recognition of Humorous Texts in Portuguese (2023.eacl-srw)

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Challenge: This PhD thesis focuses on the automatic generation and recognition of verbal punning humor in Portuguese.
Approach: They propose to combine natural language generation and cognitive processing to generate and recognize verbal humor in Portuguese.
Outcome: The proposed methods aim to generate and recognize humor in Portuguese, an underdeveloped language compared to English.

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