Summary of Chumor 1.0: a Truly Funny and Challenging Chinese Humor Understanding Dataset From Ruo Zhi Ba, by Ruiqi He et al.
Chumor 1.0: A Truly Funny and Challenging Chinese Humor Understanding Dataset from Ruo Zhi Ba
by Ruiqi He, Yushu He, Longju Bai, Jiarui Liu, Zhenjie Sun, Zenghao Tang, He Wang, Hanchen Xia, Naihao Deng
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper presents a novel dataset called Chumor, aimed at addressing the lack of culturally nuanced humor resources in non-English languages like Chinese. The dataset is constructed from Ruo Zhi Ba (RZB), a popular online platform for sharing intellectually challenging and culturally specific jokes. To evaluate the effectiveness of Chumor, the authors compare human explanations with those generated by two state-of-the-art language models, GPT-4o and ERNIE Bot, through A/B testing involving native Chinese speakers. The results show that even the most advanced LLMs struggle to generate accurate explanations for Chumor jokes, highlighting the importance of cultural context in humor understanding. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a new dataset called Chumor that helps us understand funny jokes from China. Most language learning models can’t explain these jokes well because they don’t know about Chinese culture. The authors made a special test to see how good these models are and compared it with what real people think. They found out that even the best machines have trouble understanding these jokes, which shows that humor is very culturally specific. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt
