![]() “I think he's been seeing the woman upstairs.” “When we were dating he climbed a skyscraper for me-now I can’t even get him to take out the garbage.” “Don’t you hate it when sand gets in your suit?” “The hardest part was teaching him to use the hedge trimmers.” “We use the males as a control group - they never ask for directions.” “We thought we’d try a flying object they could identify.” “Yeah, Florida was just getting too weird for us.” “Once the kids move out it'll get easier” “Actually, everybody wants to talk about it.” “Once you press your floor number, he'll never forget.” “A few more years, and all this will be ours.” “I told the aquarium we''ll be working remotely from now on.” “Pleasing people is all I know, but you wouldn't understand.” “I haven’t heard from you since we were kids!” “It has unlimited, data, unlimited minutes, with one string attached.” “This place is known for serving local produce.” “Do you mind if I bounce something off you?” “You just don’t see stars like this in the city.” “They tell you to reach for these, but never what to do you if actually catch one.” “You told me to come back when I got my act together!” “My wife said, "Try them on, it won't kill you. “You shoulda heard the mockingbirds this morning.” “You shoulda heard the mocking birds this morning.” “…but the third planet was juuuuust right!” “Think of a delay between one and ten hours.” “Be grateful you're not in business class. “Looks like I caught you at the tail end of your meal.” How well can (older) natural language processing (NLP) tools find similar captions?.How funny are captions? How do top captions behave?.How do ratings behave after users have seen many captions?.How does the system perform, both for the web server and sampling algorithm?.How many responses are gathered per contest?.The most recent contest (not shown) is likely receiving votes at. The crowdsourced ratings inform the final judging of the captions, but the official winner is decided by the TNY editorial staff. These data were gathered as part of the The New Yorker (TNY) cartoon caption contest. The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Dataset. If you do use it for academic research, we would appreciate you referencing the dataset as follows: The data may not be used for commercial purposes. Good luck.Thanks for your interest in this dataset. I will stop analyzing now, in deference to Seinfeld’s New Yorker gospel: “Cartoons are like gossamer, and one doesn’t dissect gossamer.” But what does Jerry know, really? He may have a hit show, millions of dollars, and a beautiful wife, but he has never won The New Yorker caption contest. You must look for these themes in your cartoon and pounce. But that was 50 years ago, and drudge and complacency have settled on the urban landscape sometime between now and then. And what better archetype of urban ennui could there be than a man in a cardigan holding a drink, yapping on his cell phone while blissfully unaware of looming dangers? A very similar cartoon by Jack Kirby from 1962-similar enough to lead the New York Post to shout plagiarism-has the person inside the window frightened and cowering, sans drink, glasses, or phone. To date, 136 out of the 145 caption contest winners (94 percent) fall into the “theory of mind” category. A non-theory-of-mind caption (accompanying a cartoon of a bird wearing a thong), however, requires no such projection: “ It’s a thongbird.” Theory of mind captions make for higher-order jokes easily distinguished from the simian puns and visual gags that litter the likes of MAD Magazine. An exemplary New Yorker theory of mind caption (accompanying a cartoon of a police officer ticketing a caveman with a large wheel): “ Yeah, yeah-and I invented the ticket.” The humor here requires inference about the caveman’s beliefs and intentions as he (presumably) explains to the cop that he invented the wheel. You must aim for what is called a “ theory of mind” caption, which requires the reader to project intents or beliefs into the minds of the cartoon’s characters. Should you make a pun or, perhaps, create a visual gag about a cat surreptitiously reading its owner’s e-mail? Neither. Now that you know your gatekeeper, it’s time for some advanced joke theory. ![]()
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