Humorous Wordplay Generation in French

International audienceRecent work have tackled the problem of generating puns in English, based on the corpus of Englishpuns from SemEval 2017 Task 7. In this paper, we report on experiments on generating French punsbased on the data released for the CLEF 2022 JOKER and inspired by methods for generating Englishpuns with large pretrained models. 50% of generated wellerisms were funny