Homophonic Pun Generation with Lexically Constrained Rewriting

Zhiwei Yu, Hongyu Zang, Xiaojun Wan

Language Generation Short Paper

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Abstract: Punning is a creative way to make conversation enjoyable and literary writing elegant. In this paper, we focus on the task of generating a pun sentence given a pair of homophones. We first find the constraint words supporting the semantic incongruity for a sentence. Then we rewrite the sentence with explicit positive and negative constraints. Our model achieves the state-of-the-art results in both automatic and human evaluations. We further make an error analysis and discuss the challenges for the computational pun models.
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