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Workshop: Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing

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

Junze Li · Mengjie Zhao · Yubo Xie · Antonis Maronikolakis · Pearl Pu · Hinrich Schuetze


Abstract:

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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