Papers by John Krumm
“President Vows to Cut <Taxes> Hair”: Dataset and Analysis of Creative Text Editing for Humorous Headlines (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing datasets address specific humor templates, such as funny one-liners and filling in Mad Libs R. |
| Approach: | They introduce a dataset for research in computational humor that uses crowdsourced editing techniques to create funny headlines. |
| Outcome: | The new dataset supports classic theories of humor, including incongruity, superiority, setup/punchline. |
Stimulating Creativity with FunLines: A Case Study of Humor Generation in Headlines (2020.acl-demos)
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| Challenge: | FunLines is an online game that allows players to generate and rate funny news headlines . it is difficult to generate data that depends on human creativity, and measuring creativity often requires more effort. |
| Approach: | They propose a game where players edit news headlines to make them funny and rate the funniness of headlines edited by others. |
| Outcome: | The proposed game outperforms other crowdsourcing approaches in generating humor datasets. |