Humorous Wordplay Generation in French
Résumé
Recent work have tackled the problem of generating puns in English, based on the corpus of English
puns from SemEval 2017 Task 7. In this paper, we report on experiments on generating French puns
based on the data released for the CLEF 2022 JOKER and inspired by methods for generating English
puns with large pretrained models. 50% of generated wellerisms were funny.