@book{Aho:72,
    author  = {Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman},
    title   = {The Theory of Parsing, Translation and Compiling},
    year    = "1972",
    volume  = "1",
    publisher = {Prentice-Hall},
    address = {Englewood Cliffs, NJ}
}

@book{APA:83,
    author  = {{American Psychological Association}},
    title   = {Publications Manual},
    year    = "1983",
    publisher = {American Psychological Association},
    address = {Washington, DC}
}

@article{Chandra:81,
	author = {Ashok K. Chandra and Dexter C. Kozen and Larry J. Stockmeyer},
	year = "1981",
	title = {Alternation},
	journal = {Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery},
	volume = "28",
	number = "1",
	pages = "114--133",
	doi = "10.1145/322234.322243",
}

@inproceedings{andrew2007scalable,
  title={Scalable training of {L1}-regularized log-linear models},
  author={Andrew, Galen and Gao, Jianfeng},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages={33--40},
  year={2007},
}

@book{Gusfield:97,
    author  = {Dan Gusfield},
    title   = {Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences},
    year    = "1997",
    publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
    address = {Cambridge, UK}
}

@article{rasooli-tetrault-2015,
    author    = {Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli and Joel R. Tetreault},
    title     = {Yara Parser: {A} Fast and Accurate Dependency Parser},
    journal   = {Computing Research Repository},
    volume    = {arXiv:1503.06733},
    year      = {2015},
    url       = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06733},
    note    = {version 2}
}

@article{Ando2005,
	Acmid = {1194905},
	Author = {Ando, Rie Kubota and Zhang, Tong},
	Issn = {1532-4435},
	Issue_Date = {12/1/2005},
	Journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
	Month = dec,
	Numpages = {37},
	Pages = {1817--1853},
	Publisher = {JMLR.org},
	Title = {A Framework for Learning Predictive Structures from Multiple Tasks and Unlabeled Data},
	Volume = {6},
	Year = {2005}
}

% Use this file for citations not found in the ACL Anthology (contained in "anthology.bib").

@inproceedings{Sjobergh2007RecognizingMeaning,
    title = {{Recognizing humor without recognizing meaning}},
    year = {2007},
    booktitle = {Applications of Fuzzy Sets Theory: 7th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, WILF},
    author = {Sj{\"{o}}bergh, J. and Araki, K.},
    pages = {469--476},
    url = {http://www.springerlink.com/index/J0J632QP32P41265.pdf},
    isbn = {9783540733997},
    issn = {03029743}
}

@inproceedings{Castro2016IsTweets,
    title = {{Is this a joke? Detecting humor in Spanish tweets}},
    year = {2016},
    booktitle = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
    author = {Castro, Santiago and Cubero, Mat{\'i}as and Garat, Diego and Moncecchi, Guillermo},
    volume = {10022 LNAI},
    isbn = {9783319479545},
    doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-47955-2{\_}12},
    issn = {16113349},
    keywords = {Computational humor, Humor, Humor recognition, Machine learning, Natural language processing},
    url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-47955-2_12}
}

@inproceedings{rosa2017retuyt,
  title={{RETUYT} en {TASS} 2017: Sentiment Analysis for Spanish Tweets using {SVM} and {CNN}},
  author={Ros{\'a}, Aiala and Chiruzzo, Luis and Etcheverry, Mathias and Castro, Santiago},
  booktitle={TASS @ SEPLN},
  year={2017},
  url={https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1896/p9_retuyt_tass2017.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{chiruzzo2018retuyt,
  title={{RETUYT-InCo} at {TASS} 2018: Sentiment Analysis in Spanish Variants using Neural Networks and {SVM}},
  author={Chiruzzo, Luis and Ros{\'a}, Aiala},
  booktitle={TASS @ SEPLN},
  year={2018},
  url={https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2172/p5_retuyt_tass2018.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{castro2018overview,
  title={Overview of the {HAHA} task: Humor analysis based on human annotation at {IberEval} 2018},
  author={Castro, Santiago and Chiruzzo, Luis and Ros{\'a}, Aiala},
  booktitle={IberEval @ SEPLN},
  year={2018},
  url={https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2150/overview-HAHA.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{chiruzzo2019overview,
  title={Overview of {HAHA} at {IberLEF} 2019: Humor Analysis based on Human Annotation},
  author={Chiruzzo, Luis and Castro, Santiago and Etcheverry, Mathias and Garat, Diego and Prada, Juan Jos{\'e} and Ros{\'a}, Aiala},
  year={2019},
  booktitle={IberLEF @ SEPLN},
  url={https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2421/HAHA_overview.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{DazGaliano2019OverviewOT,
  title={Overview of {TASS} 2019: One More Further for the Global Spanish Sentiment Analysis Corpus},
  author={Manuel Carlos D{\'i}az-Galiano and Manuel Garc{\'i}a Vega and Edgar Casasola and Luis Chiruzzo and Miguel {\'A}ngel Garc{\'i}a Cumbreras and Eugenio Mart{\'i}nez-C{\'a}mara and Daniela Moctezuma and Arturo Montejo-R{\'a}ez and Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo and Eric Sadit Tellez and Mario Graff and Sabino Miranda-Jim{\'e}nez},
  booktitle={IberLEF @ SEPLN},
  year={2019},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:199448396}
}

@inproceedings{garcia2020overview,
  title={Overview of {TASS} 2020: Introducing Emotion Detection},
  author={Garc{\'\i}a-Vegaa, Manuel and D{\'\i}az-Galianoa, Manuel Carlos and Garc{\'\i}a-Cumbrerasa, Miguel {\'A} and del Arcoa, Flor Miriam Plaza and Montejo-R{\'a}eza, Arturo and Jim{\'e}nez-Zafraa, Salud Mar{\'\i}a and C{\'a}marab, Eugenio Mart{\'\i}nez and Aguilarc, C{\'e}sar Antonio and Antonio, Marco and Cabezudo, Sobrevilla and Chiruzzo, Luis and Moctezuma, Daniela},
  year={2020},
  booktitle={TASS @ SEPLN},
  url={https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2664/tass_overview.pdf}
}

@article{chiruzzo2021overview,
  title={Overview of haha at iberlef 2021: Detecting, rating and analyzing humor in spanish},
  author={Chiruzzo, Luis and Castro, Santiago and G{\'o}ngora, Santiago and Ros{\'a}, Aiala and Meaney, JA and Mihalcea, Rada},
  journal={Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural},
  volume={67},
  pages={257--268},
  year={2021},
  url={http://journal.sepln.org/sepln/ojs/ojs/index.php/pln/article/view/6394}
}

@inproceedings{meaney2022don,
  title={Don’t take it personally: Analyzing gender and age differences in ratings of online humor},
  author={Meaney, JA and Wilson, Steven R and Chiruzzo, Luis and Magdy, Walid},
  booktitle={International Conference on Social Informatics},
  pages={20--33},
  year={2022},
  organization={Springer},
  url={https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-19097-1_2}
}

@article{rosa2022overview,
  title={Overview of {QuALES} at {IberLEF} 2022: Question Answering Learning from Examples in Spanish},
  author={Ros{\'a}, Aiala and Chiruzzo, Luis and Bouza, Luc{\'\i}a and Dragonetti, Alina and Castro, Santiago and Etcheverry, Mathias and G{\'o}ngora, Santiago and Goycoechea, Santiago and Machado, Juan and Moncecchi, Guillermo and others},
  journal={Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural},
  volume={69},
  pages={273--280},
  year={2022},
  url={http://journal.sepln.org/sepln/ojs/ojs/index.php/pln/article/view/6447}
}

@article{toplyn2023witscript,
  title={Witscript 3: A hybrid {AI} system for improvising jokes in a conversation},
  author={Toplyn, Joe},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.02695},
  year={2023},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02695}
}

@article{chiruzzo2023overview,
  title={Overview of {GUA-SPA} at {IberLEF} 2023: {Guarani-Spanish} Code Switching Analysis},
  author={Chiruzzo, Luis and Ag{\"u}ero-Torales, Marvin and Gim{\'e}nez-Lugo, Gustavo and Alvarez, Aldo and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Yliana and G{\'o}ngora, Santiago and Solorio, Thamar},
  journal={Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural},
  volume={71},
  pages={321--328},
  year={2023},
  url={http://journal.sepln.org/sepln/ojs/ojs/index.php/pln/article/view/6563}
}

@phdthesis{meaney2024demographically,
  title={Demographically-aware computational humor},
  author={Meaney, Julie-Anne},
  year={2024},
  school={The University of Edinburgh},
  url={http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/4619}
}

@article{aguero2024overview,
  title={Overview of {GenoVarDis} at {IberLEF} 2024: {NER} of Genomic Variants and Related Diseases in Spanish},
  author={Ag{\"u}ero-Torales, Marvin M and Abell{\'a}n, Carlos Rodr{\'\i}guez and Mata, Marta Carcajona and Hern{\'a}ndez, Juan I D{\'\i}az and L{\'o}pez, Mario Sol{\'\i}s and Miranda-Escalada, Antonio and L{\'o}pez-Alv{\'a}rez, Sergio and Prats, Jorge Mira and Moraga, Carlos A Casta{\~n}o and Vilares, David and others},
  journal={Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural},
  volume={73},
  pages={381--392},
  year={2024},
  url={http://journal.sepln.org/sepln/ojs/ojs/index.php/pln/article/view/6625}
}

@inproceedings{chiang2024chatbot,
  title={{Chatbot Arena}: An open platform for evaluating {LLMs} by human preference},
  author={Chiang, Wei-Lin and Zheng, Lianmin and Sheng, Ying and Angelopoulos, Anastasios Nikolas and Li, Tianle and Li, Dacheng and Zhu, Banghua and Zhang, Hao and Jordan, Michael and Gonzalez, Joseph E and others},
  booktitle={Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year={2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=3MW8GKNyzI}
}

@inproceedings{arhaha2026,
  author    = {Almasoud, Ameera and Alkhalifa, Hend and Alqifari, Reem and Alangari, Nourah and Albahlal, Manal},
  title     = {{The ARHAHA2026 Shared Task on Arabic Humor Automatic Generation}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT7) with 5 Shared Tasks},
  year      = {2026},
  address   = {Palma, Mallorca, Spain},
  url       = {https://sites.google.com/view/arhaha2026/home},
  note      = {Co-located with the 2026 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2026).}
}

@misc{comanici2025gemini25pushingfrontier,
      title={Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities}, 
      author={Gheorghe Comanici and Eric Bieber and Mike Schaekermann and Ice Pasupat and Noveen Sachdeva and Inderjit Dhillon and Marcel Blistein and Ori Ram and Dan Zhang and Evan Rosen and others},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2507.06261},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06261}, 
}

@article{tamayo2023everybody,
  title={{Everybody Hurts, Sometimes: Overview of Hurtful Humour at IberLEF 2023: Detection of Humour Spreading Prejudice in Twitter}},
  author={Labadie-Tamayo, Roberto and Chulvi, Berta and Rosso, Paolo},
  journal={Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural},
  volume={71},
  pages={383--395},
  year={2023},
  url={http://journal.sepln.org/sepln/ojs/ojs/index.php/pln/article/view/6568},
}

@misc{miech20rareact,
   title={{RareAct}: A Video Dataset of Unusual Interactions},
   author={Miech, Antoine and Alayrac, Jean-Baptiste and Laptev, Ivan and Sivic, Josef and Zisserman, Andrew},
   year={2020},
   eprint={2008.01018},
   archivePrefix={arXiv},
   primaryClass={cs.CV},
   url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01018},
}

% --- Methods cited in §6 (Evaluation) and §7 (Participant Systems) ---

@article{bradley1952rank,
  title={Rank analysis of incomplete block designs: I. The method of paired comparisons},
  author={Bradley, Ralph Allan and Terry, Milton E.},
  journal={Biometrika},
  volume={39},
  number={3/4},
  pages={324--345},
  year={1952},
  publisher={JSTOR},
  doi={10.2307/2334029},
}

@article{fleiss1971measuring,
  title={Measuring nominal scale agreement among many raters},
  author={Fleiss, Joseph L.},
  journal={Psychological Bulletin},
  volume={76},
  number={5},
  pages={378--382},
  year={1971},
  doi={10.1037/h0031619},
}

@article{krippendorff1970estimating,
  title={Estimating the reliability, systematic error and random error of interval data},
  author={Krippendorff, Klaus},
  journal={Educational and Psychological Measurement},
  volume={30},
  number={1},
  pages={61--70},
  year={1970},
  doi={10.1177/001316447003000105},
}

@inproceedings{hu2022lora,
  title={{LoRA}: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models},
  author={Hu, Edward J. and Shen, Yelong and Wallis, Phillip and Allen-Zhu, Zeyuan and Li, Yuanzhi and Wang, Shean and Wang, Lu and Chen, Weizhu},
  booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year={2022},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=nZeVKeeFYf9},
}

@inproceedings{dettmers2023qlora,
  title={{QLoRA}: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized {LLM}s},
  author={Dettmers, Tim and Pagnoni, Artidoro and Holtzman, Ari and Zettlemoyer, Luke},
  booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year={2023},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=OUIFPHEgJU},
}

@misc{schulman2017ppo,
  title={Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms},
  author={Schulman, John and Wolski, Filip and Dhariwal, Prafulla and Radford, Alec and Klimov, Oleg},
  year={2017},
  eprint={1707.06347},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.LG},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347},
}

@inproceedings{rafailov2023dpo,
  title={Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model},
  author={Rafailov, Rafael and Sharma, Archit and Mitchell, Eric and Manning, Christopher D. and Ermon, Stefano and Finn, Chelsea},
  booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year={2023},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=HPuSIXJaa9},
}

@misc{shao2024deepseekmath,
  title={{DeepSeekMath}: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models},
  author={Shao, Zhihong and Wang, Peiyi and Zhu, Qihao and Xu, Runxin and Song, Junxiao and Bi, Xiao and Zhang, Haowei and Zhang, Mingchuan and Li, Y.~K. and Wu, Y. and Guo, Daya},
  year={2024},
  eprint={2402.03300},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CL},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03300},
  note={Introduces Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO).},
}

@inproceedings{lewis2020rag,
  title={Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive {NLP} Tasks},
  author={Lewis, Patrick and Perez, Ethan and Piktus, Aleksandra and Petroni, Fabio and Karpukhin, Vladimir and Goyal, Naman and K{\"u}ttler, Heinrich and Lewis, Mike and Yih, Wen-tau and Rockt{\"a}schel, Tim and Riedel, Sebastian and Kiela, Douwe},
  booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year={2020},
  url={https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/hash/6b493230205f780e1bc26945df7481e5-Abstract.html},
}

% --- Humor theories cited in §2 (Related Work) and §7 ---

@book{raskin1985semantic,
  title={Semantic Mechanisms of Humor},
  author={Raskin, Victor},
  year={1985},
  publisher={D. Reidel},
  address={Dordrecht},
  series={Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy},
  volume={24},
  isbn={978-90-277-1821-1},
  doi={10.1007/978-94-009-6472-3},
}

@article{attardo1991script,
  title={Script theory revis(it)ed: Joke similarity and joke representation model},
  author={Attardo, Salvatore and Raskin, Victor},
  journal={Humor: International Journal of Humor Research},
  volume={4},
  number={3-4},
  pages={293--348},
  year={1991},
  doi={10.1515/humr.1991.4.3-4.293},
}

@article{mcgraw2010benign,
  title={Benign Violations: Making Immoral Behavior Funny},
  author={McGraw, A.~Peter and Warren, Caleb},
  journal={Psychological Science},
  volume={21},
  number={8},
  pages={1141--1149},
  year={2010},
  doi={10.1177/0956797610376073},
}

@book{dikkers2014howto,
  title={How to Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint for Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing},
  author={Dikkers, Scott},
  year={2014},
  publisher={CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform},
  isbn={978-1-4991-9612-2},
  note={Introduces the eleven ``Funny Filters'' humor taxonomy used in Lattice's prompting strategy.},
}

@article{spearman1904proof,
  title={The Proof and Measurement of Association between Two Things},
  author={Spearman, Charles},
  journal={The American Journal of Psychology},
  volume={15},
  number={1},
  pages={72--101},
  year={1904},
  doi={10.2307/1412159},
}

@inproceedings{khattab2024dspy,
  title={{DSPy}: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into State-of-the-Art Pipelines},
  author={Khattab, Omar and Singhvi, Arnav and Maheshwari, Paridhi and Zhang, Zhiyuan and Santhanam, Keshav and Vardhamanan, Sri and Haq, Saiful and Sharma, Ashutosh and Joshi, Thomas T. and Moazam, Hanna and Miller, Heather and Zaharia, Matei and Potts, Christopher},
  booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year={2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=sY5N0zY5Od},
}

@article{miller1995wordnet,
  title={{WordNet}: A Lexical Database for {E}nglish},
  author={Miller, George A.},
  journal={Communications of the ACM},
  volume={38},
  number={11},
  pages={39--41},
  year={1995},
  doi={10.1145/219717.219748},
}

@book{toplyn2014comedy,
  title={Comedy Writing for Late-Night {TV}: How to Write Monologue Jokes, Desk Pieces, Sketches, Parodies, Audience Pieces, Remotes, and Other Short-Form Comedy},
  author={Toplyn, Joe},
  year={2014},
  publisher={Twenty Lane Media},
  isbn={9780988460508},
}

% --- LLMs cited inline (Phi-2 in §Results, DeepSeek-R1 in §7) ---

@misc{javaheripi2023phi2,
  title={Phi-2: The Surprising Power of Small Language Models},
  author={Javaheripi, Mojan and Bubeck, S{\'e}bastien and Abdin, Marah and Aneja, Jyoti and Bubeck, Sebastien and Mendes, Caio C{\'e}sar Teodoro and Chen, Weizhu and Del Giorno, Allie and Eldan, Ronen and Gopi, Sivakanth and Gunasekar, Suriya and Javaheripi, Mojan and Kauffmann, Piero and Lee, Yin Tat and Li, Yuanzhi and Nguyen, Anh and de Rosa, Gustavo and Saarikivi, Olli and Salim, Adil and Shah, Shital and Behl, Harkirat and Wang, Xin and Ward, Rachel and Witte, Philipp and Yu, Cyril Zhang},
  year={2023},
  howpublished={Microsoft Research Blog},
  url={https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/phi-2-the-surprising-power-of-small-language-models/},
}

@misc{deepseek2025r1,
  title={{DeepSeek-R1}: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in {LLMs} via Reinforcement Learning},
  author={DeepSeek-AI and Guo, Daya and Yang, Dejian and Zhang, Haowei and Song, Junxiao and Zhang, Ruoyu and others},
  year={2025},
  eprint={2501.12948},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CL},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948},
}

% --- Software used by the analysis scripts (\nocite'd to appear in references) ---

@article{virtanen2020scipy,
  title={{SciPy 1.0}: Fundamental Algorithms for Scientific Computing in {P}ython},
  author={Virtanen, Pauli and Gommers, Ralf and Oliphant, Travis E. and Haberland, Matt and Reddy, Tyler and Cournapeau, David and Burovski, Evgeni and Peterson, Pearu and Weckesser, Warren and Bright, Jonathan and others},
  journal={Nature Methods},
  volume={17},
  pages={261--272},
  year={2020},
  doi={10.1038/s41592-019-0686-2},
}

@article{pedregosa2011scikit,
  title={Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in {P}ython},
  author={Pedregosa, Fabian and Varoquaux, Ga{\"e}l and Gramfort, Alexandre and Michel, Vincent and Thirion, Bertrand and Grisel, Olivier and Blondel, Mathieu and Prettenhofer, Peter and Weiss, Ron and Dubourg, Vincent and Vanderplas, Jake and Passos, Alexandre and Cournapeau, David and Brucher, Matthieu and Perrot, Matthieu and Duchesnay, {\'E}douard},
  journal={Journal of Machine Learning Research},
  volume={12},
  pages={2825--2830},
  year={2011},
  url={https://www.jmlr.org/papers/v12/pedregosa11a.html},
}

@misc{castro2017krippendorff,
  title={Fast {K}rippendorff: Fast Computation of {K}rippendorff's Alpha Agreement Measure},
  author={Castro, Santiago},
  year={2017},
  publisher={GitHub},
  howpublished={GitHub repository},
  url={https://github.com/pln-fing-udelar/fast-krippendorff},
}
