37.255, Confs: 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor (Online)

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Subject: 37.255, Confs: 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor (Online)

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Date: 16-Jan-2026
From: Tristan Miller [Tristan.Miller at umanitoba.ca]
Subject: 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor


2nd Workshop on Computational Humor
Short Title: CHum 2026

Date: 03-Jul-2026 - 04-Jul-2026
Location: Online
Contact Email: chum at groups.io
Meeting URL: https://chumweb.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 05-Mar-2026

The 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2026) will take place
virtually on July 3 or 4, 2026 as part of the 64th Annual Meeting of
the the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).
Scope and Topics:
CHum 2026 aims to foster further work on modeling the processes of
humor with current methods in computational linguistics and natural
language processing, against the theoretical backdrop of humor
research and with reference to relevant corpora of textual, visual,
and multimodal materials. A principal goal of the workshop is to unite
researchers who can together probe the limits of various meaning
representations -- symbolic, neural, and hybrid -- for humor
processing.
We welcome contributions on any topic relevant to the computational
processing of humor, including but not limited to the following:
 - LLMs, knowledge representation
 - Resources and evaluation
 - Human-computer interaction
 - Computer-mediated communication
 - Assisted content creation
 - Machine and computer-assisted translation
 - Digital humanities applications
 - Formal modeling of humor
 - Proof-of-concept humor detection and classification
Particularly encouraged are submissions describing inter- or
multi-disciplinary work, whether completed or in progress, and
position papers that critically discuss the past, present, and future
of computational humor systems.
Submission Instructions:
Long and short papers should be formatted according to the same
guidelines for the main ACL 2026 conference papers
https://2026.aclweb.org/calls/main_conference_papers/.  Submission
instructions will be added to a future version of this call and also
posted to the workshop website https://chumweb.org/.
Important Dates:
All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
 - Initial submission: March 5, 2026
 - Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026
 - Camera-ready submission: May 12, 2026
 - Workshop: July 3 or 4, 2026
Organizers:
Christian F. Hempelmann, East Texas A&M University
Julia Rayz, Purdue University
Ori Amir, Fulbright University Vietnam
Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba
Tiansi Dong, University of Cambridge
Further Information:
Website: https://chumweb.org/
E-mail: chum at groups.io



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