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CLEF Workshop JOKER: Automatic Wordplay and Humour Translation

Authors:

Liana Ermakova,

Tristan Miller,

Orlane Puchalski,

Fabio Regattin,

Élise Mathurin,

Sílvia Araújo,

Anne-Gwenn Bosser,

Monika Bokiniec,

Gaelle Le Corre,

Benoît Jeanjean,

Radia Hannachi,

Mohamed SakiAuthors Info & Claims

Advances in Information Retrieval: 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10–14, 2022, Proceedings, Part II

Pages 355 - 363

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_45

Published: 10 April 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Humour remains one of the most difficult aspects of intercultural communication: understanding humour often requires understanding implicit cultural references and/or double meanings, and this raises the question of its (un)translatability. Wordplay is a common source of humour in due to its attention-getting and subversive character. The translation of humour and wordplay is therefore in high demand. Modern translation depends heavily on technological aids, yet few works have treated the automation of humour and wordplay translation, or the creation of humour corpora. The goal of the JOKER workshop is to bring together translators and computer scientists to work on an evaluation framework for wordplay, including data and metric development, and to foster work on automatic methods for wordplay translation. We propose three pilot tasks: (1) classify and explain instances of wordplay, (2) translate single words containing wordplay, and (3) translate entire phrases containing wordplay.

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Advances in Information Retrieval: 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10–14, 2022, Proceedings, Part II

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DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7

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University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-71908-0_8
Ermakova LBosser AMiller TThomas TPreciado VSidorov GJatowt A(2024)CLEF 2024 JOKER Lab: Automatic Humour AnalysisAdvances in Information Retrieval10.1007/978-3-031-56072-9_5(36-43)Online publication date: 24-Mar-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-56072-9_5
Ermakova LBosser AJatowt AMiller TChen HDuh WHuang HKato MMothe JPoblete B(2023)The JOKER Corpus: English-French Parallel Data for Multilingual Wordplay RecognitionProceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval10.1145/3539618.3591885(2796-2806)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2023
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