August 2026 - CHum-organizers - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

Inviting Ryan North for a keynote address at the 3rd Workshop on Computational Humor
by Tristan Miller 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

Dear Kate, I'm writing pursuant to the instructions on Ryan North's Talks page at <https://www.ryannorth.ca/talks/> to invite him as a keynote speaker at the 3rd Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum). This is an annual academic event whose 2027 edition we are proposing for an upcoming conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics. I would be grateful if you could provide me with further information on Ryan's usual speaking arrangements and/or forward the following message to him. Sincerely, Tristan Miller on behalf of the CHum 2027 Organizing Committee Dear Ryan, I'm one of the organizers of the Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum) [1], a workshop series held at conferences affiliated with the ACL. I'm also a fellow graduate of the Computational Linguistics group at the University of Toronto, though I don't believe we had the pleasure of meeting there -- it seems you started your degree just a few months after I graduated in 2003. In light of your experience both in academia and as a practising humorist, I'd like to ask whether you would consider participating in the 2027 edition of our workshop as a keynote speaker. The goal of CHum is to advance research into the computational modelling of humour using insights from the social sciences and humanities. We therefore aim to invite speakers who can provide our attendees -- mostly researchers in computer science and AI -- with fresh perspectives on the production, use, or analysis of humour. Past speakers have included Gil Greengross, an evolutionary psychologist; Laura Little, a legal scholar; and Joe Toplyn, an Emmy-winning comedy writer. Given your distinguished humour writing career, your background in computational semantics, and your past lectures on creativity and technology, we would love to host you for an invited talk. We will be proposing to the ACL Workshop Chairs that CHum 2027 be held as part of one of the following conferences, with a preference for NAACL or ACL: * EACL 2027 in Athens, March 9-14 * COLING 2027 in Macau, May 9-14 * NAACL 2027 in San Francisco, June 1-5 * ACL 2027 in Kyoto, August 17-22 * EMNLP 2027 in Central America, early November The final venue, workshop date, and modality (online-only or hybrid) will be determined by the ACL Workshop Chairs. We would in any event cover your workshop registration fee for virtual attendance and, if we are successful in obtaining funding from sponsors, may alternatively be able to cover travel and registration expenses for in-person attendance. Thank you for considering this provisional invitation. It would be wonderful to have you join us, and I look forward to your response. Regards, Tristan [1] https://chumweb.org/ -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Re: Proposal for CHum 2027
by Tristan Miller 05 Sep '26

05 Sep '26

Dear all (Ori in CC as he hasn't yet accepted the mailing list invitation), On 2026-08-26 12:44, Tristan Miller via groups.io wrote: > Joe suggested Lydia Chilton of > Columbia, who has published on multimodal AI for creative work and on AI > humour generation. I had a look at her web page <https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/faculty-staff/directory/lydia-chilton> and Google Scholar profile <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RpxD-7QAAAAJ> and she seems like a good choice. I think she's only put out one paper on humour (on generating captions) but her other work on co-creation with generative AI seems relevant. If others agree, who would like to send her an invitation? Regards, Tristan -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Keynote invitation: Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2027)
by Ori Amir 26 Aug '26

26 Aug '26

Caution! This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba. Dear Prof. Lydia Chilton, I'm one of the organizers of the Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum<https://chumweb.org/>), a workshop series held at conferences affiliated with the ACL. I'm currently at the University of Chicago (just joined), and I recently had the pleasure of meeting your student Sean Kim at ICCC 2026. Our conversation reminded me how consistently insightful your ideas on computational AI have been, which is why I'm writing. On behalf of the organizing committee, I'd like to ask whether you would consider participating in the 2027 edition of our workshop as a keynote speaker. The goal of CHum is to advance research into the computational modeling of humor, drawing on insights from the social sciences and humanities where they can inform our models. Your work stands out to us precisely because it does both: it is rigorously computational while taking seriously what the humanities and creative practice have to say about how humor actually works. That is exactly the kind of perspective we want our attendees – mostly researchers in computer science and AI – to hear. Past speakers have included Tony Veale, a pioneer of computational creativity; Salvatore Attardo, the linguist behind the General Theory of Verbal Humor; Gil Greengross, an evolutionary psychologist; Laura Little, a legal scholar and author of “Regulating Funny”; and Joe Toplyn, an Emmy-winning comedy writer and Witscipt developer. Given your research on computational approaches to creativity and humor, we would love to host you for an invited talk. We will be proposing to the ACL Workshop Chairs that CHum 2027 be held as part of one of the following conferences, with a preference for NAACL or ACL: * EACL 2027 in Athens, March 9-14 * COLING 2027 in Macau, May 9-14 * NAACL 2027 in San Francisco, June 1-5 * ACL 2027 in Kyoto, August 17-22 * EMNLP 2027 in Central America, early November The final venue, workshop date, and modality (online-only or hybrid) will be determined by the ACL Workshop Chairs. We would in any event cover your workshop registration fee for virtual attendance and, if we are successful in obtaining funding from sponsors, may alternatively be able to cover travel and registration expenses for in-person attendance. Thank you for considering this provisional invitation. It would be wonderful to have you join us, and I look forward to your response. Regards, Ori Amir Chicago Center for Computational Social Science, University of Chicago

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Posting access
by Tristan Miller 26 Aug '26

26 Aug '26

Dear all, I've set up this mailing list so that posts from non-subscribers are automatically accepted. If we end up receiving too much spam, I'll reconfigure the list so that posts from non-subscribers are held for moderation. Regards, Tristan -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Test, please ignore
by Tristan Miller 26 Aug '26

26 Aug '26

Caution! This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba. test; ignore

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no Tiansi
by Christian Hempelmann 26 Aug '26

26 Aug '26

Caution! This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba. Hi, all, Tiansi is out for CHum3 (and I’m probably not going to AAAI). First post! Kiki Christian F. Hempelmann, PhD Professor of Computational Linguistics Editor-in-Chief, HUMOR – Int'l J Humor R Coordinator, Graduate Programs in Applied Linguistics Co-coordinator, MS in AI Director, Semantic AI and Creativity Lab (SAICL) Literature and Languages East Texas A&M University > On Aug 26, 2026, at 13:03, chum-organizers-request(a)lists.umanitoba.ca wrote: > > **External Email** > > > Welcome to the "CHum-organizers" mailing list! > > To post to this list, send your message to: > > chum-organizers(a)lists.umanitoba.ca > > You can unsubscribe or make adjustments to your options via email by > sending a message to: > > chum-organizers-request(a)lists.umanitoba.ca > > with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the > quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You will > need your password to change your options, but for security purposes, > this password is not included here. If you have forgotten your > password you will need to reset it via the web UI.

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