@inproceedings{yu-etal-2020-homophonic,
    title = "Homophonic Pun Generation with Lexically Constrained Rewriting",
    author = "Yu, Zhiwei  and
      Zang, Hongyu  and
      Wan, Xiaojun",
    editor = "Webber, Bonnie  and
      Cohn, Trevor  and
      He, Yulan  and
      Liu, Yang",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2020.emnlp-main.229/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.229",
    pages = "2870--2876",
    abstract = "Punning is a creative way to make conversation enjoyable and literary writing elegant. In this paper, we focus on the task of generating a pun sentence given a pair of homophones. We first find the constraint words supporting the semantic incongruity for a sentence. Then we rewrite the sentence with explicit positive and negative constraints. Our model achieves the state-of-the-art results in both automatic and human evaluations. We further make an error analysis and discuss the challenges for the computational pun models."
}