Random Walk Factoid Annotation for Collective Discourse. - Ben King; Rahul Jha; Dragomir R. Radev; Robert Mankoff (ACL (2), 2013)

Inside Jokes: Identifying Humorous Cartoon Captions. - Dafna Shahaf; Eric Horvitz; Robert Mankoff (KDD, 2015)

Humor in Collective Discourse: Unsupervised Funniness Detection in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. - Dragomir R. Radev; Amanda Stent; Joel R. Tetreault; Aasish Pappu; Aikaterini Iliakopoulou; Agustin Chanfreau; Paloma de Juan; Jordi Vallmitjana; Alejandro Jaimes; Rahul Jha; Robert Mankoff (LREC, 2016)

A KL-LUCB algorithm for Large-Scale Crowdsourcing. - Ervin Tanczos; Robert Nowak 001; Bob Mankoff (NIPS, 2017)

NEXT: A system to easily connect crowdsourcing and adaptive data collection. - Scott Sievert; Daniel Ross; Lalit Jain; Kevin Jamieson 001; Robert Nowak 001; Robert Mankoff (SciPy, 2017)

Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor "Understanding" Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest. - Jack Hessel; Ana Marasovic; Jena D. Hwang; Lillian Lee; Jeff Da; Rowan Zellers; Robert Mankoff; Yejin Choi 001 (ACL (1), 2023)

Humor in AI: Massive Scale Crowd-Sourced Preferences and Benchmarks for Cartoon Captioning. - Jifan Zhang; Lalit Jain; Yang Guo; Jiayi Chen; Kuan Lok Zhou; Siddharth Suresh; Andrew Wagenmaker; Scott Sievert; Timothy T. Rogers; Kevin G. Jamieson; Bob Mankoff; Robert Nowak 001 (NeurIPS, 2024)

Bridging the Creativity Understanding Gap: Small-Scale Human Alignment Enables Expert-Level Humor Ranking in LLMs. - Kuan Lok Zhou; Jiayi Chen; Siddharth Suresh; Reuben Narad; Timothy T. Rogers; Lalit Jain; Robert D. Nowak; Bob Mankoff; Jifan Zhang (CoRR, 2025)

Which LLMs Get the Joke? Probing Non-STEM Reasoning Abilities with HumorBench. - Reuben Narad; Siddharth Suresh; Jiayi Chen; Pine S. L. Dysart-Bricken; Bob Mankoff; Rob Nowak 001; Jifan Zhang; Lalit Jain (CoRR, 2025)