Full Title: JOKER 2024

Date: 09-Sep-2024 - 12-Sep-2024
Location: Grenoble, France
Contact Person: Tristan Miller
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://joker-project.com/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics; Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
French (fra)

Call Deadline: 06-May-2024

Meeting Description:

The goal of the JOKER workshop is to bring together linguists and computer scientists to work on an evaluation framework for humour, including data and metric development, and to foster work on automatic methods for humour analysis and translation. JOKER 2024 will be held at the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024) from 9 to 12 September 2024 in Grenoble, France.

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of automatic or manual runs for any or all of the following tasks, for which we have prepared annotated data:

Task 1: Humour-aware information retrieval

Task 2: Humour classification according to genre and technique

Task 3: Translation of puns from English to French

Unshared task: We welcome submissions that use our data for other tasks.

How to participate:

At least one team member should register at the CLEF website, and all team members should join the JOKER mailing list (see URLs below). Task data will be made available to all registered participants. Runs and system description papers should be submitted according to the schedule and instructions posted on the JOKER and CLEF websites.

Deadlines:

2024-04-22: CLEF 2024 registration
2024-05-06: Submission of runs for JOKER
2024-05-24: Evaluation results posted
2024-05-31: Submission of system description papers
2024-06-24: Reviews of system description papers
2024-07-08: Submission of camera-ready papers
2024-09-09: CLEF 2024 conference begins

Contacts:

JOKER website: https://joker-project.com/
CLEF website: https://clef2024.clef-iniative.eu/
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joker_research
Mailing list (Google Groups): https://groups.google.com/g/joker-project

Chairs:

Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba
Adam Jatowt, University of Innsbruck
Anne-Gwenn Bosser, ENIB
Victor Manuel Palma Preciado, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politécnico Nacional