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This paper focuses on sarcasm detection, which aims to identify whether given statements convey criticism, mockery, or other negative sentiment opposite to the literal meaning. To detect sarcasm, humans often require a comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ziqi Qiu , Jianxing Yu , Yufeng Zhang , Hanjiang Lai , Yanghui Rao , Qinliang Su , Jian Yin

Sarcasm recognition is challenging because it needs an understanding of the true intention, which is opposite to or different from the literal meaning of the words. Prior work has addressed this challenge by developing a series of methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ojas Nimase , Sanghyun Hong

We explore two methods for representing authors in the context of textual sarcasm detection: a Bayesian approach that directly represents authors' propensities to be sarcastic, and a dense embedding approach that can learn interactions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Y. Alex Kolchinski , Christopher Potts

We tested the robustness of sarcasm detection models by examining their behavior when fine-tuned on four sarcasm datasets containing varying characteristics of sarcasm: label source (authors vs. third-party), domain (social media/online vs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Hyewon Jang , Diego Frassinelli

Sarcasm detection is a binary classification task that aims to determine whether a given utterance is sarcastic. Over the past decade, sarcasm detection has evolved from classical pattern recognition to deep learning approaches, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Liming Zhou , Xiaowei Xu , Xiaodong Wang

Sarcasm is a sophisticated speech act which commonly manifests on social communities such as Twitter and Reddit. The prevalence of sarcasm on the social web is highly disruptive to opinion mining systems due to not only its tendency of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Yi Tay , Luu Anh Tuan , Siu Cheung Hui , Jian Su

Detecting arguments in online interactions is useful to understand how conflicts arise and get resolved. Users often use figurative language, such as sarcasm, either as persuasive devices or to attack the opponent by an ad hominem argument.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Debanjan Ghosh , Ritvik Shrivastava , Smaranda Muresan

Sarcasm, a common feature of human communication, poses challenges in interpersonal interactions and human-machine interactions. Linguistic research has highlighted the importance of prosodic cues, such as variations in pitch, speaking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Xiyuan Gao , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Existing sarcasm detection systems focus on exploiting linguistic markers, context, or user-level priors. However, social studies suggest that the relationship between the author and the audience can be equally relevant for the sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Joan Plepi , Lucie Flek

Various linguistic and non-linguistic clues, such as excessive emphasis on a word, a shift in the tone of voice, or an awkward expression, frequently convey sarcasm. The computer vision problem of sarcasm recognition in conversation aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ananya Pandey , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

Topic Models have been reported to be beneficial for aspect-based sentiment analysis. This paper reports a simple topic model for sarcasm detection, a first, to the best of our knowledge. Designed on the basis of the intuition that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Aditya Joshi , Prayas Jain , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark Carman

Stance Detection (SD) on social media has emerged as a prominent area of interest with implications for social business and political applications thereby garnering escalating research attention within NLP. The inherent subtlety and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Gibson Nkhata , Susan Gauch

Detecting sarcasm remains a challenging task in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) despite recent advances in neural network approaches. Currently, Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Michael Iskandardinata , William Christian , Derwin Suhartono

Humor is a natural and fundamental component of human interactions. When correctly applied, humor allows us to express thoughts and feelings conveniently and effectively, increasing interpersonal affection, likeability, and trust. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Felipe Godoy

Recent approaches for sentiment lexicon induction have capitalized on pre-trained word embeddings that capture latent semantic properties. However, embeddings obtained by optimizing performance of a given task (e.g. predicting contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Silvio Amir , Rámon Astudillo , Wang Ling , Paula C. Carvalho , Mário J. Silva

Sarcasm is a form of irony that involves saying or writing something that is opposite or opposite to what one really means, often in a humorous or mocking way. It is often used to mock or mock someone or something, or to be humorous or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ishita Goyal , Priyank Bhandia , Sanjana Dulam

Predicting context-dependent and non-literal utterances like sarcastic and ironic expressions still remains a challenging task in NLP, as it goes beyond linguistic patterns, encompassing common sense and shared knowledge as crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Suzana Ilić , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Jorge A. Balazs , Yutaka Matsuo

Sentiment classification and sarcasm detection are both important natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Sentiment is always coupled with sarcasm where intensive emotion is expressed. Nevertheless, most literature considers them as two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Navonil Majumder , Soujanya Poria , Haiyun Peng , Niyati Chhaya , Erik Cambria , Alexander Gelbukh

Sarcasm is often expressed through several verbal and non-verbal cues, e.g., a change of tone, overemphasis in a word, a drawn-out syllable, or a straight looking face. Most of the recent work in sarcasm detection has been carried out on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Santiago Castro , Devamanyu Hazarika , Verónica Pérez-Rosas , Roger Zimmermann , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

Sarcasm employs ambivalence, where one says something positive but actually means negative, and vice versa. The essence of sarcasm, which is also a sufficient and necessary condition, is the conflict between literal and implied sentiments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Yiyi Liu , Yequan Wang , Aixin Sun , Xuying Meng , Jing Li , Jiafeng Guo