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title = "Unified Humor Detection Based on Sentence-pair Augmentation and Transfer Learning",
author = "Wang, Minghan and
Yang, Hao and
Qin, Ying and
Sun, Shiliang and
Deng, Yao",
editor = "Martins, Andr{\'e} and
Moniz, Helena and
Fumega, Sara and
Martins, Bruno and
Batista, Fernando and
Coheur, Luisa and
Parra, Carla and
Trancoso, Isabel and
Turchi, Marco and
Bisazza, Arianna and
Moorkens, Joss and
Guerberof, Ana and
Nurminen, Mary and
Marg, Lena and
Forcada, Mikel L.",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
address = "Lisboa, Portugal",
publisher = "European Association for Machine Translation",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.eamt-1.7/",
pages = "53--59",
abstract = "We propose a unified multilingual model for humor detection which can be trained under a transfer learning framework. 1) The model is built based on pre-trained multilingual BERT, thereby is able to make predictions on Chinese, Russian and Spanish corpora. 2) We step out from single sentence classification and propose sequence-pair prediction which considers the inter-sentence relationship. 3) We propose the Sentence Discrepancy Prediction (SDP) loss, aiming to measure the semantic discrepancy of the sequence-pair, which often appears in the setup and punchline of a joke. Our method achieves two SoTA and a second-place on three humor detection corpora in three languages (Russian, Spanish and Chinese), and also improves F1-score by 4{\%}-6{\%}, which demonstrates the effectiveness of it in humor detection tasks."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Unified Humor Detection Based on Sentence-pair Augmentation and Transfer Learning
%A Wang, Minghan
%A Yang, Hao
%A Qin, Ying
%A Sun, Shiliang
%A Deng, Yao
%Y Martins, André
%Y Moniz, Helena
%Y Fumega, Sara
%Y Martins, Bruno
%Y Batista, Fernando
%Y Coheur, Luisa
%Y Parra, Carla
%Y Trancoso, Isabel
%Y Turchi, Marco
%Y Bisazza, Arianna
%Y Moorkens, Joss
%Y Guerberof, Ana
%Y Nurminen, Mary
%Y Marg, Lena
%Y Forcada, Mikel L.
%S Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
%D 2020
%8 November
%I European Association for Machine Translation
%C Lisboa, Portugal
%F wang-etal-2020-unified
%X We propose a unified multilingual model for humor detection which can be trained under a transfer learning framework. 1) The model is built based on pre-trained multilingual BERT, thereby is able to make predictions on Chinese, Russian and Spanish corpora. 2) We step out from single sentence classification and propose sequence-pair prediction which considers the inter-sentence relationship. 3) We propose the Sentence Discrepancy Prediction (SDP) loss, aiming to measure the semantic discrepancy of the sequence-pair, which often appears in the setup and punchline of a joke. Our method achieves two SoTA and a second-place on three humor detection corpora in three languages (Russian, Spanish and Chinese), and also improves F1-score by 4%-6%, which demonstrates the effectiveness of it in humor detection tasks.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.eamt-1.7/
%P 53-59
Markdown (Informal)
[Unified Humor Detection Based on Sentence-pair Augmentation and Transfer Learning](https://aclanthology.org/2020.eamt-1.7/) (Wang et al., EAMT 2020)
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