Get Your Jokes Right: Ask the Crowd

摘要

Jokes classification is an intrinsically subjective and complex task, mainly due to the difficulties related to cope with contextual constraints on classifying each joke. Nowadays people have less time to devote to search and enjoy humour and, as a consequence, people are usually interested on having a set of interesting filtered jokes that could be worth reading, that is with a high probability of make them laugh. In this paper we propose a crowdsourcing based collective intelligent mechanism to classify humour and to recommend the most interesting jokes for further reading. Crowdsourcing is becoming a model for problem solving, as it revolves around using groups of people to handle tasks traditionally associated with experts or machines. We put forward an active learning Support Vector Machine (SVM) approach that uses crowdsourcing to improve classification of user custom preferences. Experiments were carried out using the widely available Jester jokes dataset, with encouraging results.