Duluth at SemEval-2020 Task 7: Using Surprise as a Key to Unlock Humorous Headlines

Shuning Jin, Yue Yin, XianE Tang +1

We use pretrained transformer-based language models in SemEval-2020 Task 7: Assessing the Funniness of Edited News Headlines. Inspired by the incongruity theory of humor, we use a…