PROGRAM
| 08:45–09:00 | Opening remarks Christian F. Hempelmann, Julia Rayz, Tiansi Dong and Tristan Miller |
| Keynote 1 | |
| 09:00–09:45 | How Many Stochastic Parrots Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb? Salvatore Attardo, East Texas A&M University |
| Paper session 1: Multimodal Pathways to Meaning and Memory | |
| 09:45–10:05 | The Exception of Humor: Iconicity, Phonemic Surprisal, Memory Recall, and Emotional Associations Alexander Kilpatrick and Maria Flaksman |
| 10:05–10:25 | Text Is Not All You Need: Multimodal Prompting Helps LLMs Understand Humor Ashwin Baluja |
| Keynote 2 | |
| 11:00–11:45 | Unlocking the Punchline: Navigating Humor Computation From Understanding to Generation and Beyond Liang Yang, Dalian University of Technology |
| Paper session 2: Algorithms and Frameworks for Pun Generation | |
| 11:45–12:05 | Rule-based Approaches to the Automatic Generation of Puns Based on Given Names in French Mathieu Dehouck and Marine Delaborde |
| 12:05–12:25 | Homophonic Pun Generation in Code Mixed Hindi English Yash Raj Sarrof |
| 12:25–12:45 | Bridging Laughter Across Languages: Generation of Hindi-English Code-mixed Puns Likhith Asapu, Prashant Kodali, Ashna Dua, Kapil Rajesh Kavitha and Manish Shrivastava |
| Keynote 3 | |
| 13:30–14:15 | The Psychology of Computational Humor Willibald Ruch, University of Zurich |
| Paper session 3: Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics | |
| 14:15–14:35 | Testing Humor Theory Using Word and Sentence Embeddings Stephen Skalicky and Salvatore Attardo |
| 14:55–15:40 | Pragmatic Metacognitive Prompting Improves LLM Performance on Sarcasm Detection Joshua Lee, Wyatt Fong, Alexander Le, Sur Shah, Kevin Han and Kevin Zhu |
| Keynote 4 | |
| 14:55–15:40 | Get With The Program! From Talking the Talk to Walking the Walk in Computational Humour Tony Veale, University College Dublin |
| Paper session 4: Evaluating and Experiencing Generated Humor | |
| 16:10–16:30 | Can AI Make Us Laugh? Comparing Jokes Generated by Witscript and a Human Expert Joe Toplyn and Ori Amir |
| 16:30–16:50 | Evaluating Human Perception and Bias in AI-Generated Humor Narendra Nath Joshi |
| 16:50–17:10 | The Theater Stage as Laboratory: Review of Real-Time Comedy LLM Systems for Live Performance Piotr Mirowski, Kory Mathewson and Boyd Branch |
| 17:10–17:30 | The Algorithm is the Message: Computing as a Humor-Generating Mode Vittorio Marone |
| 17:30–17:40 | Closing remarks Christian F. Hempelmann, Julia Rayz, Tiansi Dong and Tristan Miller |