{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/punny-captions-witty-wordplay-in-image","title":"Punny Captions: Witty Wordplay in Image Descriptions","arxiv_id":"1704.08224","date":"2017-04-26","proceeding":"NAACL 2018 6","authors":["Arjun Chandrasekaran","Devi Parikh","Mohit Bansal"],"abstract":"Wit is a form of rich interaction that is often grounded in a specific\nsituation (e.g., a comment in response to an event). In this work, we attempt\nto build computational models that can produce witty descriptions for a given\nimage. Inspired by a cognitive account of humor appreciation, we employ\nlinguistic wordplay, specifically puns, in image descriptions. We develop two\napproaches which involve retrieving witty descriptions for a given image from a\nlarge corpus of sentences, or generating them via an encoder-decoder neural\nnetwork architecture. We compare our approach against meaningful baseline\napproaches via human studies and show substantial improvements. We find that\nwhen a human is subject to similar constraints as the model regarding word\nusage and style, people vote the image descriptions generated by our model to\nbe slightly wittier than human-written witty descriptions. Unsurprisingly,\nhumans are almost always wittier than the model when they are free to choose\nthe vocabulary, style, etc.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08224v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.08224v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"punny-captions-witty-wordplay-in-image","repo_url":"https://github.com/purvaten/punny_captions","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"decoder","task_name":"Decoder"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/1704.08224","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1704.08224","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}