Yang Liu

Tianjin University, China

Other people with similar names: Yang Liu (Wilfrid Laurier University), Yang Liu (University of Helsinki), Yang Liu (刘扬) (刘扬; Ph.D Purdue; ICSI, Dallas, Facebook, Liulishuo, Amazon), Yang Liu (刘扬) (Peking University), Yang Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)), Yang Liu (National University of Defense Technology), Yang Liu (Univ. of Michigan, UC Santa Cruz), Yang Liu (May refer to several people), Yang Liu (Samsung Research Center Beijing), Yang Janet Liu (Georgetown University; 刘洋), Yang Liu (Beijing Language and Culture University), Yang Liu (Edinburgh Ph.D., Microsoft), Yang Liu (3M Health Information Systems), Yang Liu (刘洋) (刘洋; ICT, Tsinghua, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence), Yang Liu (Microsoft Cognitive Services Research)

2023

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Mining Effective Features Using Quantum Entropy for Humor Recognition
Yang Liu | Yuexian Hou
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023

Humor recognition has been extensively studied with different methods in the past years. However, existing studies on humor recognition do not understand the mechanisms that generate humor. In this paper, inspired by the incongruity theory, any joke can be divided into two components (the setup and the punchline). Both components have multiple possible semantics, and there is an incongruous relationship between them. We use density matrices to represent the semantic uncertainty of the setup and the punchline, respectively, and design QE-Uncertainty and QE-Incongruity with the help of quantum entropy as features for humor recognition. The experimental results on the SemEval2021 Task 7 dataset show that the proposed features are more effective than the baselines for recognizing humorous and non-humorous texts.

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Yuexian Hou 1

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