Choosing the more humorous edited headline is a subfield of humor detection and generation tasks. This paper tries to deal
with the second subtask of the SemEval-2020 shared task, “Assessing Humor in Edited News Headlines”. It aims to
determine how machines can understand humor generated by an atomic edit to the original headline and automatically
pick up the funnier version among two different edits. Given that both substitute words on the same original text are scored
using crowdsourcing, we attempt not only classification but also the regression model on this special task. As for the
training process, we first consider using two different embedding approaches, including GloVe and BERT, then further
use different forms of neural network such as a fully connected layer, BiLSTM, and GRU. According to the experimental
results, our BERT-based model gets a 64% accuracy performance, ranking second in the competition over 50 teams.
Furthermore, by comparing the result and performance of the above models, we pick up some classic wrongly predicted
samples and analyze the potential reasons for future study. The experimental results illustrate that mainly the revised
sentence accounts for edit humor, whereas the original sentence does not have any effect. Besides, the combination of the
revised and original sentence as input receives the best output, which shows that edit humor is probably produced from the
edited sentence and the difference before and after modification.
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