Psycho-linguistic Experiment on Universal Semantic Components of Verbal Humor: System Description and Annotation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a psycho-linguistic system for annotating humor in texts through self-paced reading, aiming to identify universal semantic components that distinguish humorous from non-humorous utterances.

Contribution

It presents a novel self-paced reading system for humor annotation and discusses an experiment to explore semantic components of humor across texts.

Findings

Collected data on reader responses to humorous and non-humorous texts.

Identified potential semantic components associated with humor.

Demonstrated the system's effectiveness in humor annotation

Abstract

Objective criteria for universal semantic components that distinguish a humorous utterance from a non-humorous one are presently under debate. In this article, we give an in-depth observation of our system of self-paced reading for annotation of humor, that collects readers' annotations while they open a text word by word. The system registers keys that readers press to open the next word, choose a class (humorous versus non-humorous texts), change their choice. We also touch upon our psycho-linguistic experiment conducted with the system and the data collected during it.