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SemEval-2017 Task 6: \#HashtagWars: Learning a Sense of Humor

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Authors: Peter Potash,Alexey Romanov,Anna Rumshisky
Where published: SEMEVAL 2017 8
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Abstract URL: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/S17-2004/


This paper describes a new shared task for humor understanding that attempts to eschew the ubiquitous binary approach to humor detection and focus on comparative humor ranking instead. The task is based on a new dataset of funny tweets posted in response to shared hashtags, collected from the {`}Hashtag Wars{'} segment of the TV show @midnight. The results are evaluated in two subtasks that require the participants to generate either the correct pairwise comparisons of tweets (subtask A), or the correct ranking of the tweets (subtask B) in terms of how funny they are. 7 teams participated in subtask A, and 5 teams participated in subtask B. The best accuracy in subtask A was 0.675. The best (lowest) rank edit distance for subtask B was 0.872.

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