Humor Detection in English-Hindi Code-Mixed Social Media Content : Corpus and Baseline System

Understand

The tremendous amount of user generated data through social networking sites led to the gaining popularity of automatic text classification in the field of computational linguistics over the past decade.

• Within this domain, one problem that has drawn the attention of many researchers is automatic humor detection in texts.
• In depth semantic understanding of the text is required to detect humor which makes the problem difficult to automate.
• With increase in the number of social media users, many multilingual speakers often interchange between languages while posting on social media which is called code-mixing.