--- title: "Workshop on Computational Humor 2026 — accepted papers" description: "Workshop on Computational Humor 2026 — accepted papers: 4 papers in the Elamur Research library (Online), with our summaries, ranked…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/2026/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/2026/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [Workshop on Computational Humor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/) / 2026 # Workshop on Computational Humor 2026 — accepted papers Workshop on Computational Humor 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Computational Humor, held in Online, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 8 papers of it; our library holds 4 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Online · 🗓 July 2026 [**8** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/2026/#works) · [**0** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/2026/#works) ## All accepted papers (8) The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[Arabic Humor as a Diagnostic Probe for Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zaghouani-2026-arabic-humor-as-diagnostic-probe/)**Wajdi Zaghouani*our summary* 2. **[Cards Against LLMs: Benchmarking Humor Alignment in Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.chum-1.4/)**Yousra Fettach, Guillaume Bied, Hannu Toivonen et al. 3. **[Does Bigger Mean Funnier? Evaluating Humor Generation Across the Qwen3 Model Family ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.chum-1.7/)**Jatin Agrawal, Radhika Mamidi 4. **[Navigating the Joke Space: Towards Automated Originality Assessment of AI-Generated Humor ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.chum-1.8/)**Ori Amir, Huyen Ngo, Joe Toplyn et al. 5. **[One Joke to Rule them All? On the (Im)possibility of Generalizing Humor Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turgeman-2026-one-joke-rule-them-all/)**Mor Turgeman, Chen Shani, Dafna Shahaf*our summary* 6. **[Phonetic Cues Improve LLM-Based Pun Detection in Short Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thaniserikaran-2026-phonetic-cues-improve-llm-based/)**Adith Santosh Thaniserikaran, Govind Harikrishnan*our summary* 7. **[The Roast of GPT4o: Experiments in Generating, Detecting and Evaluating Celebrity Roast Comedy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.chum-1.5/)**Jens Lemmens, Jérémy Genette, Tony Veale et al. 8. **[Timing In stand-up Comedy: Text, Audio, Laughter, Kinesics (TIC-TALK): Pipeline and Database for the Multimodal Study of Comedic Timing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zribi-2026-timing-stand-up-comedy-text/)**Yaelle Zribi, Florian Cafiero, Vincent Lépinay et al.*our summary* ## Papers with our summary in our library (4) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Phonetic Cues Improve LLM-Based Pun Detection in Short Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thaniserikaran-2026-phonetic-cues-improve-llm-based/) [Workshop on Computational Humor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/)**Adith Santosh Thaniserikaran, Govind Harikrishnan*2026* 2. **[One Joke to Rule them All? On the (Im)possibility of Generalizing Humor Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turgeman-2026-one-joke-rule-them-all/) [Workshop on Computational Humor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/)**Mor Turgeman, Chen Shani, Dafna Shahaf*2026* 3. **[Arabic Humor as a Diagnostic Probe for Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zaghouani-2026-arabic-humor-as-diagnostic-probe/) [Workshop on Computational Humor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/)**Wajdi Zaghouani*2026* 4. **[Timing In stand-up Comedy: Text, Audio, Laughter, Kinesics (TIC-TALK): Pipeline and Database for the Multimodal Study of Comedic Timing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zribi-2026-timing-stand-up-comedy-text/) [Workshop on Computational Humor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/)**Yaelle Zribi, Florian Cafiero, Vincent Lépinay, et al.*2026* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Chahan Vidal-Gorène**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chahan-vidal-gorene/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chen Shani**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-shani/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dafna Shahaf**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dafna-shahaf/) · [🧑‍🔬**Florian Cafiero**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/florian-cafiero/) · [🧑‍🔬**Wajdi Zaghouani**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wajdi-zaghouani/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**Hebrew University of Jerusalem** Jerusalem · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hebrew-university-of-jerusalem/) · [🎓**Purdue University West Lafayette** West Lafayette · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) · [🎓**Université Paris Sciences et Lettres** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-sciences-et-lettres/) · [🎓**Northwestern University in Qatar** Doha · Qatar 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university-in-qatar/) · [🎓**École Nationale des Chartes** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-nationale-des-chartes/) · [🎓**École Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées** Le Kremlin-Bicêtre · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-pour-l-informatique-et-les-techniques-avancees/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous Workshop on Computational Humor 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/2025/) - [↑ back to Workshop on Computational Humor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/)