Humor Mechanics: Advancing Humor Generation with Multistep Reasoning

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In this paper, we explore the generation of one-liner jokes through multi-step reasoning.

• Our work involved reconstructing the process behind creating humorous one-liners and developing a working prototype for humor generation.
• We conducted comprehensive experiments with human participants to evaluate our approach, comparing it with human-created jokes, zero-shot GPT-4 generated humor, and other baselines.
• The evaluation focused on the quality of humor produced, using human labeling as a benchmark.