@inproceedings{zhong2024thinkoutsidebox,
  author = {Shanshan Zhong and Zhongzhan Huang and Shanghua Gao and Wushao Wen and Liang Lin and Marinka Zitnik and Pan Zhou},
  title     = {Let’s Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024/papers/Zhong_Lets_Think_Outside_the_Box_Exploring_Leap-of-Thought_in_Large_Language_CVPR_2024_paper.pdf}
}

@misc{zhang2020letshumorousknowledgeenhanced,
      title={Let's be Humorous: Knowledge Enhanced Humor Generation}, 
      author={Hang Zhang and Dayiheng Liu and Jiancheng Lv and Cheng Luo},
      year={2020},
      eprint={2004.13317},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13317}, 
}

@misc{kim2025aihumorgenerationcognitive,
      title={AI Humor Generation: Cognitive, Social and Creative Skills for Effective Humor}, 
      author={Sean Kim and Lydia B. Chilton},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2502.07981},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.HC},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07981}, 
}

@misc{tikhonov2024humormechanicsadvancinghumor,
      title={Humor Mechanics: Advancing Humor Generation with Multistep Reasoning}, 
      author={Alexey Tikhonov and Pavel Shtykovskiy},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2405.07280},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07280}, 
}

@inproceedings{weller-etal-2020-humor,
    title = "Can Humor Prediction Datasets be used for Humor Generation? Humorous Headline Generation via Style Transfer",
    author = "Weller, Orion and Fulda, Nancy and Seppi, Kevin",
    editor = "Klebanov, Beata Beigman and Shutova, Ekaterina and Lichtenstein, Patricia and Muresan, Smaranda and Wee, Chee and Feldman, Anna and Ghosh, Debanjan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.25/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.figlang-1.25",
    pages = "186--191",
}

@misc{joswin_deephumor,
  author       = {Emil Joswin and Aditya Choudhary and Raghav Garg},
  title        = {Deep-Humor: Generation, Analysis and Classification of Humor using Transformers},
  howpublished = {Project report (PDF) in GitHub repository},
  year         = {n.d.},
  url          = {https://github.com/emiljoswin/Deep-Humor-Generation-Analysis-and-Classification-of-Humor-using-Transformers/blob/master/DeepHumor.pdf},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-02-27}
}

@inproceedings{semeval2026mwahaha,

  title={{SemEval-2026 Task 1: MWAHAHA, Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate}},

  author={Castro, Santiago and Chiruzzo, Luis and G{\'o}ngora, Santiago and Rahili, Salar and Deng, Naihao and Sastre, Ignacio and Amoroso, Victoria and Rey, Guillermo and Ros{\'a}, Aiala and Moncecchi, Guillermo and Meaney, J. A. and Prada, Juan Jos{\'e} and Mihalcea, Rada},

  booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2026)},

  year={2026}

}

@inproceedings{baranov-etal-2023-told,
    title = "You Told Me That Joke Twice: A Systematic Investigation of Transferability and Robustness of Humor Detection Models",
    author = "Baranov, Alexander  and
      Kniazhevsky, Vladimir  and
      Braslavski, Pavel",
    editor = "Bouamor, Houda  and
      Pino, Juan  and
      Bali, Kalika",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = dec,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Singapore",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.845/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.845",
    pages = "13701--13715",
}

@dataset{dataset_socialgrep_one_million_reddit_jokes,
  title        = {One Million Reddit Jokes},
  author       = {{SocialGrep}},
  year         = {2024},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/SocialGrep/one-million-reddit-jokes}},
  note         = {Hugging Face dataset. Accessed 2026-02-28}
}

@dataset{dataset_shuttie_dadjokes,
  title        = {Dadjokes},
  author       = {{shuttie}},
  year         = {2024},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/shuttie/dadjokes}},
  note         = {Hugging Face dataset. Accessed 2026-02-28}
}

@software{software_15dkatz_official_joke_api,
  title        = {Official Joke API},
  author       = {{15Dkatz}},
  year         = {2017},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/15Dkatz/official_joke_api}},
  note         = {GitHub repository. Accessed 2026-02-28}
}

@dataset{dataset_zmxv_humorset,
  title        = {HumorSet},
  author       = {{zmxv}},
  year         = {2021},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/zmxv/humorset}},
  note         = {GitHub repository. Accessed 2026-02-28}
}

@dataset{dataset_orionw_rjokesdata,
  title        = {rJokesData},
  author       = {{orionw}},
  year         = {2019},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/orionw/rJokesData}},
  note         = {GitHub repository. Accessed 2026-02-28}
}

@dataset{dataset_goldberg_jester,
  title        = {Jester Dataset},
  author       = {Goldberg, Ken},
  year         = {2001},
  howpublished = {\url{https://goldberg.berkeley.edu/jester-data/}},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-02-28}
}

@dataset{dataset_nlp_umu_hahackathon_2021,
  title        = {HAHackathon 2021 Resources},
  author       = {{NLP-UMUTeam}},
  year         = {2021},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/NLP-UMUTeam/hahackathon-2021}},
  note         = {GitHub repository. Accessed 2026-02-28}
}

@dataset{dataset_hossain_humicroedit_semeval2020,
  title        = {SemEval-2020 Task 7: Humor in Edited News Headlines},
  author       = {{n-hossain}},
  year         = {2020},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/n-hossain/semeval-2020-task-7-humicroedit}},
  note         = {GitHub repository. Accessed 2026-02-28}
}

@dataset{dataset_yguooo_newyorker_caption_ranking,
  title        = {New Yorker Caption Ranking},
  author       = {{yguooo}},
  year         = {2023},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/yguooo/newyorker_caption_ranking}},
  note         = {Hugging Face dataset. Accessed 2026-02-28}
}

@software{software_humor_research_humor_detection,
  title        = {Humor Detection Resources},
  author       = {{Humor-Research}},
  year         = {2023},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Humor-Research/Humor-detection}},
  note         = {GitHub repository. Accessed 2026-02-28}
}

@software{software_humor_research_hri_tools,
  title        = {hri\_tools},
  author       = {{Humor-Research}},
  year         = {2023},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Humor-Research/hri_tools}},
  note         = {GitHub repository. Accessed 2026-02-28}
}