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NIHRIO at SemEval-2018 Task 3: A Simple and Accurate Neural Network Model for Irony Detection in Twitter

Computation and Language 2018-04-10 v2

Abstract

This paper describes our NIHRIO system for SemEval-2018 Task 3 "Irony detection in English tweets". We propose to use a simple neural network architecture of Multilayer Perceptron with various types of input features including: lexical, syntactic, semantic and polarity features. Our system achieves very high performance in both subtasks of binary and multi-class irony detection in tweets. In particular, we rank third using the accuracy metric and fifth using the F1 metric. Our code is available at https://github.com/NIHRIO/IronyDetectionInTwitter

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@article{arxiv.1804.00520,
  title  = {NIHRIO at SemEval-2018 Task 3: A Simple and Accurate Neural Network Model for Irony Detection in Twitter},
  author = {Thanh Vu and Dat Quoc Nguyen and Xuan-Son Vu and Dai Quoc Nguyen and Michael Catt and Michael Trenell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.00520},
  year   = {2018}
}

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In proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2018, to appear (6 pages, 2 figures)