Abstract
A pun is a form of wordplay for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect, where a word suggests two or more meanings by exploiting polysemy (homographic pun) or phonological similarity to another word (heterographic pun). This paper presents an approach that addresses pun detection and pun location jointly from a sequence labeling perspective. We employ a new tagging scheme such that the model is capable of performing such a joint task, where useful structural information can be properly captured. We show that our proposed model is effective in handling both homographic and heterographic puns. Empirical results on the benchmark datasets demonstrate that our approach can achieve new state-of-the-art results.- Anthology ID:
- N19-1217
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Editors:
- Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2117–2123
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/N19-1217
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/N19-1217
- Cite (ACL):
- Yanyan Zou and Wei Lu. 2019. Joint Detection and Location of English Puns. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 2117–2123, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Joint Detection and Location of English Puns (Zou & Lu, NAACL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/N19-1217.pdf
- Code
- zoezou2015/PunLocation