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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

Sarcasm detection is a significant challenge in sentiment analysis, particularly due to its nature of conveying opinions where the intended meaning deviates from the literal expression. This challenge is heightened in social media contexts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Aniket Deroy , Subhankar Maity

Multimodal sarcasm detection (MSD) aims to identify sarcastic intent from semantic incongruity between text and image. Although recent methods have improved MSD through cross-modal interaction and incongruity reasoning, most still treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhenyu Wang , Weichen Cheng , Weijia Li , Junjie Mou , Zongyou Zhao , Guoying Zhang

Linguistic features have shown promising applications for detecting various cognitive impairments. To improve detection accuracies, increasing the amount of data or the number of linguistic features have been two applicable approaches.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Zining Zhu , Jekaterina Novikova , Frank Rudzicz

Sarcasm is a form of speech in which speakers say the opposite of what they truly mean in order to convey a strong sentiment. In other words, "Sarcasm is the giant chasm between what I say, and the person who doesn't get it.". In this paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Lotem Peled , Roi Reichart

Pretrained transformer-based Language Models (LMs) are well-known for their ability to achieve significant improvement on NLP tasks, but their black-box nature, which leads to a lack of interpretability, has been a major concern. My…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Ximing Wen

When we read, our brain processes language and generates cognitive processing data such as gaze patterns and brain activity. These signals can be recorded while reading. Cognitive language processing data such as eye-tracking features have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Nora Hollenstein , Maria Barrett , Marius Troendle , Francesco Bigiolli , Nicolas Langer , Ce Zhang

Sarcasm detection is a crucial yet challenging Natural Language Processing task. Existing Large Language Model methods are often limited by single-perspective analysis, static reasoning pathways, and a susceptibility to hallucination when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ziqi Liu , Ziyang Zhou , Yilin Li , Mingxuan Hu , Yushan Pan , Zhijie Xu , Yangbin Chen

Sarcasm is a form of humor where expressions convey meanings opposite to their literal interpretations. Classifying and generating sarcasm using large language models is vital for interpreting human communication. Sarcasm poses challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lang Xiong , Raina Gao , Alyssa Jeong , Yicheng Fu , Sean O'Brien , Vasu Sharma , Kevin Zhu

In this paper, we reported our experiments with various strategies to improve code-mixed humour and sarcasm detection. Particularly, we tried three approaches: (i) native sample mixing, (ii) multi-task learning (MTL), and (iii) prompting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Debajyoti Mazumder , Aakash Kumar , Jasabanta Patro

Detecting hate speech in non-direct forms, such as irony, sarcasm, and innuendos, remains a persistent challenge for social networks. Although sarcasm and hate speech are regarded as distinct expressions, our work explores whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Angelly Cabrera , Linus Lei , Antonio Ortega

Human emotions are complex, with sarcasm being a subtle and distinctive form. Despite progress in sarcasm research, sarcasm generation remains underexplored, primarily due to the overreliance on textual modalities and the neglect of visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Changli Wang , Rui Wu , Fang Yin

Word feature vectors have been proven to improve many NLP tasks. With recent advances in unsupervised learning of these feature vectors, it became possible to train it with much more data, which also resulted in better quality of learned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Marius Sajgalik , Michal Barla , Maria Bielikova

Multi-modal sarcasm detection has attracted much recent attention. Nevertheless, the existing benchmark (MMSD) has some shortcomings that hinder the development of reliable multi-modal sarcasm detection system: (1) There are some spurious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Libo Qin , Shijue Huang , Qiguang Chen , Chenran Cai , Yudi Zhang , Bin Liang , Wanxiang Che , Ruifeng Xu

Multimodal sarcasm understanding is a high-order cognitive task. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on many downstream NLP tasks, growing evidence suggests that they struggle with sarcasm understanding.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yazhou Zhang , Chunwang Zou , Bo Wang , Jing Qin , Prayag Tiwari

With the rapid growth of social media usage, a common trend has emerged where users often make sarcastic comments on posts. While sarcasm can sometimes be harmless, it can blur the line with cyberbullying, especially when used in negative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Pinky Pamecha , Chaitya Shah , Divyam Jain , Kashish Gandhi , Kiran Bhowmick , Meera Narvekar

Sarcasm is a way of verbal irony where someone says the opposite of what they mean, often to ridicule a person, situation, or idea. It is often difficult to detect sarcasm in the dialogue since detecting sarcasm should reflect the context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yumin Kim , Heejae Suh , Mingi Kim , Dongyeon Won , Hwanhee Lee

Paraphrase detection is an important task in text analytics with numerous applications such as plagiarism detection, duplicate question identification, and enhanced customer support helpdesks. Deep models have been proposed for representing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Muhammad Haroon Shakeel , Asim Karim , Imdadullah Khan

Sentiment analysis becomes an essential part of every social network, as it enables decision-makers to know more about users' opinions in almost all life aspects. Despite its importance, there are multiple issues it encounters like the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Abdelrahman Kaseb , Mona Farouk

Valuable decisions and highly prioritized analysis now depend on applications such as facial biometrics, social media photo tagging, and human robots interactions. However, the ability to successfully deploy such applications is based on…

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