Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper studies joke detection in short text, focusing only on jokes triggered by lexical ambiguity.Following Attardo and Raskin, we treat these jokes as cases where humor arises from a script opposition activated through a logical mechanism such as homography or homophony.Our framework combines contextual semantic analysis for homographs with phoneme-level similarity for homophones and near-homophones, using CMUdict, weighted Levenshtein distance, and prompt-based reasoning to recover ambiguities that are not visible in spelling alone.Results show that explicit phonetic modeling improves detection of sound-based puns.
Institution: Purdue University West Lafayette
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W7166873390