Making sense of funny bone from cartoon caption contest results
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - 04:30
in Mathematics & Economics
The New Yorker's practice of publishing a weekly cartoon with no caption and then inviting readers to submit captions for it caught the attention of a team of 11 from Columbia University, University of Michigan, Yahoo! Labs and The New Yorker. As it stands, over 5,000 readers submit what they hope will be considered as the funniest captions and the editors choose three top entries and then ask readers to select the funniest of all. That created a huge database of captions.