Aba_team at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Plan2joke – Humor Policies for Type-Specific Two-Pass Humor Generation

MCML Authors

Daryna Dementieva

Dr.

→ Group Alexander Fraser
 Data Analytics & Statistics

Alexander Fraser

Prof. Dr.

Core PI

Data Analytics & Statistics

Abstract

We present a planning-first humor generation system for SemEval-style tasks that separates joke generation into two stages: a planner that produces a structured humor plan and a realizer that renders a final joke conditioned on that plan. To reduce bias and template memorization common in large, noisy joke dumps, we apply unified filtering and construct type-consistent supervision aligned with an explicit Humor Policy for pun, satire, and irony. We train parameter-efficient adapters on two datasets that mirror inference (input → plan, and input plus plan → joke) and evaluate the resulting system with automatic and humanoriented analyses.

inproceedings DVK+26

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SemEval @ACL 2026

20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026.

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Authors

A. Dikhtiar • A. Viter • B. Karaziia • D. Dementieva • A. Fraser

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Links

DOI GitHub

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Research Area

 B2 | Natural Language Processing