2 papers
cs.CL2026
Jokes Aside: Measuring the Semantic Distance of Double Meanings
Fabio De Ponte
Large language models have significantly enriched the toolkit for computational humor research, particularly in the automated generation of jokes and puns. A key innovation, contex…
cs.CL2026
Evolving language compositionality in a frequency-structured meaning space
Fabio De Ponte, Eloise Gaines-White, Conor Houghton +1
The iterated learning model was introduced to investigate language evolution: the way in which the characteristic properties of human languages have been shaped, at least partly, b…