FunnyBorg at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation

Stefan Oprea, Lacrimioara Toma Oprea, Maria Paval-Istrate, Diana Trandabat, Daniela Gifu


Abstract
Our team competed in the SemEval-2026 Task1: MWAHAHA: Humor Generation. This isa task for generation of computational humor.The generated jokes are text-based, but alsoinclude memes, for captioning an image. Ourapproach involved prompt engineering using avoting system. We obtained rank 1 in one ofthe subtasks, and rank 2 in three other subtasks.
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2026.semeval-1.427
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Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, USA
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Ekaterina Kochmar, Debanjan Ghosh, Kai North, Mamoru Komachi
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SemEval | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3446–3448
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Stefan Oprea, Lacrimioara Toma Oprea, Maria Paval-Istrate, Diana Trandabat, and Daniela Gifu. 2026. FunnyBorg at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026), pages 3446–3448, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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FunnyBorg at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation (Oprea et al., SemEval 2026)
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