Tristan Miller
Scholar

Tristan Miller

Google Scholar ID: XAfWDQUAAAAJ
University of Manitoba
Natural Language ProcessingComputational LinguisticsComputational Humour
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,146
 
H-index
16
 
i10-index
24
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
62
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 1. Anna Palmann and Tristan Miller. What's in a pun? assessing the relationship between phonological distance and perceived funniness of punning jokes. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 2025.
  • 2. Liana Ermakova, Ricardo Campos, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, and Tristan Miller. Overview of the CLEF 2025 JOKER lab: Humour in the machine. In Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction: 16th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2025, Madrid, Spain, September 9–12, 2025, Proceedings, 2025.
Research Experience
  • 1. 2026-09-21: Co-organizer of the CLEF 2026 workshop "JOKER: Automatic Humour Analysis"
  • 2. 2025-09-09: Co-organizer of the CLEF 2025 workshop "JOKER: Automatic Humour Analysis"
  • 3. 2025-09-05: Senior area co-chair for Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics at EMNLP 2025
  • 4. 2025-08-06: Co-editor of EJHR special issue "AI Meets Humour"
  • 5. 2025-07-30: Interview for Undark and Smithsonian Magazine
  • 6. 2025-07-27: Faculty advisor to the Student Research Workshop Chairs at ACL 2025
  • 7. 2025-07-11: Co-convenor of the Humor and AI Panel at ISHS 2025
  • 8. 2025-04-02: Co-convenor of the panel "Beyond the Web: Usenet as an Archive of Digital Discourse" at BDCAM25
  • 9. 2025-02-19: Interview on matrix, Ö1 (Austrian public radio)
  • 10. 2025-01-19: Area co-chair for Language Resources and Evaluation at COLING 2025
Background
  • A computational linguist with research interests in lexical semantics, historical online corpora, and computational detection and interpretation of humour. Currently heads the Computational Linguistics at Manitoba (CLAM) Lab at the University of Manitoba's Department of Computer Science.