FUN WITH PUN

Pun is a form of wordplay that exploits the different meanings of the same word (homonyms) or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings (heteronyms). From Shakespeare’s plays to daily life conversations, pun has been used widely as a way to express humor. The two types of pun are expressed in the following sentences:

I used to be a banker but I lost interest

The dentist had a bad day at the orifice

In the first instance, the word 'interest' can be understood in two ways: i. the state of wanting to know or learn about sth, or ii. the money paid regularly at a particular rate. In the latter example, the word 'orifice' sounds similar to the word 'office', and therefore can be punned as heteronyms.

Three subtasks

The tasks described below are rephrased from the tasks described in SemEval-2017 Task 7: Detection and Interpretation of English Puns

Task 1: (Pun Detection) Given a document of sentences that either contain a pun word or not, classify sentences with pun word (1) from those without pun word (0)

Task 2: (Pun Location) For each context that has pun word, locate the pun word (or which word is the pun word)

Task 3: (Pun Interpretation) For each context that has pun word, the system need to annotate two different senses of the pun word in WordNet

Scorer

Disclaimer: The content in this section is taken from the README.md file that can be downloaded from https://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/data/sense-labelling-resources/sense-annotated-english-puns/

The scorer/src directory contains the Java source code for the scoring software and the scorer/bin directory contains the compiled classes.

To (re)compile the scoring software:

$ cd scorer
$ javac -d bin src/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/semeval2017/task7/scorer/PunScorer.java

To run the scoring software:

$ cd scorer/bin
$ java de.tudarmstadt.ukp.semeval2017.task7.scorer.PunScorer

Running the scorer without any command-line arguments prints the following usage instructions:

Usage:
        java de.tudarmstadt.ukp.semeval2017.task7.scorer.PunScorer [ -d | -l | -i ] <goldFile> <resultFile> [ <outputFile> ]

The first command-line argument is required, and must be either -d (for the detection subtask), -l (for the location subtask), or -i (for the interpretation subtask). The next two arguments are also required; they specify the location of the gold-standard file and the system result file, in that order. The final optional argument specifies the location of a file to write the output. If the argument is omitted, output is written to standard output.