Challenge: Existing studies on humor in non-English languages lack culturally nuanced humor in other languages.
Approach: They construct a Chinese humor explanation dataset using a reddit-like platform . they test ten LLMs and find they are significantly better than existing LLM models .
Outcome: The proposed dataset is the first and largest Chinese humor explanation dataset.

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