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This joke is [MASK]: Recognizing Humor and Offense with Prompting

arXiv 2210.13985 ↗First posted 25 Oct 2022cs.CL cs.CYcited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

Humor is a magnetic component in everyday human interactions and communications. Computationally modeling humor enables NLP systems to entertain and engage with users. We investigate the effectiveness of prompting, a new transfer learning paradigm for NLP, for humor recognition. We show that prompting performs similarly to finetuning when numerous annotations are available, but gives stellar performance in low-resource humor recognition. The relationship between humor and offense is also inspected by applying influence functions to prompting; we show that models could rely on offense to determine humor during transfer.

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