SemEval-2017 Task 6: #HashtagWars: Learning a Sense of Humor

• DOI: 10.18653/v1/s17-2004
• Publication Date: 2018-01-30T09:09:28Z
• Authors: Peter Potash; Alexey Romanov; Anna Rumshisky
• Keywords: SemEval; Rank (graph theory); Sense of humor; Midnight

This paper describes a new shared task for humor understanding that attempts to eschew the ubiquitous binary approach detection and focus on comparative ranking instead. The is based dataset of funny tweets posted in response hashtags, collected from 'Hashtag Wars' segment TV show @midnight. results are evaluated two subtasks require participants generate either correct pairwise comparisons (subtask A), or B) terms how they are. 7 teams participated subtask A, 5 B. best accuracy A was 0.675. (lowest) rank edit distance B 0.872.