MWAHAHA: Pioneering Humor Generation at SemEval 2026
MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 challenges participants to develop systems that generate humorous content, advancing NLP and AI creativity.
The MWAHAHA task at SemEval 2026 is pushing the boundaries of NLP by challenging participants to develop systems that can generate genuinely humorous content. The task is divided into two subtasks: Text-based Humor Generation and Image-Based Caption Generation.
- Subtask A involves generating jokes based on news headlines or specific words in English, Spanish, and Chinese.
- Subtask B requires generating captions for GIF images to enhance their comedic effect, with options to use just the image or the image plus a starting prompt, all in English.
Participating systems will be evaluated through human preferences in 1-on-1 arena-style battles. To join, visit the CodaBench competition page.
Tags: SemEval 2026, Humor Generation, NLP, MWAHAHA, Computational Humor, AI Creativity