CLEF Workshop JOKER: Automatic Wordplay and Humour Translation

• Published in: Advances in Information Retrieval pp. 355 - 363
• Main Authors: Ermakova, Liana, Miller, Tristan, Puchalski, Orlane, Regattin, Fabio, Mathurin, Élise, Araújo, Sílvia, Bosser, Anne-Gwenn, Borg, Claudine, Bokiniec, Monika, Corre, Gaelle Le, Jeanjean, Benoît, Hannachi, Radia, Mallia, Ġorġ, Matas, Gordan, Saki, Mohamed
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Creative language analysis; Evaluation metrics; Humour; Machine translation; Parallel corpora; Puns; Wordplay

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 attenti...