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Tristan Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba, leading the Computational Linguistics at Manitoba (CLAM) Lab. His research focuses on computational linguistics, natural language processing, and humor analysis. He holds academic affiliations with institutions like the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) and has contributed to projects like the JOKER Lab at CLEF.
His work emphasizes lexical semantics, historical online corpora, and the computational detection/translation of wordplay. He organizes workshops on computational humor (CHum, JOKER) and serves as an editor for journals like Humor and European Journal of Humour Research.
Key contributions include the JOKER corpus for multilingual wordplay analysis, tools like PunCAT for pun translation, and LaTeX classes for proposal formatting (Heria, SSHRC-Insight). His research bridges theoretical linguistics with practical NLP applications.
He has held roles such as Senior Area Co-Chair at EMNLP 2025 and Faculty Advisor at ACL 2025. His funded projects include the FWF-funded "Computational PUN-DERSTANDING" and Horizon Europe proposal development initiatives.
