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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 detection remains a significant challenge due to its reliance on nuanced contextual understanding, world knowledge, and multi-faceted linguistic cues that vary substantially across different sarcastic expressions. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ziyang Zhou , Ziqi Liu , Yan Wang , Yiming Lin , Yangbin Chen

Past work in computational sarcasm deals primarily with sarcasm detection. In this paper, we introduce a novel, related problem: sarcasm target identification i.e., extracting the target of ridicule in a sarcastic sentence). We present an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Aditya Joshi , Pranav Goel , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark Carman

Irony and sarcasm are two complex linguistic phenomena that are widely used in everyday language and especially over the social media, but they represent two serious issues for automated text understanding. Many labeled corpora have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Giosué Lo Bosco , Giovanni Pilato

Automatic sarcasm detection is the task of predicting sarcasm in text. This is a crucial step to sentiment analysis, considering prevalence and challenges of sarcasm in sentiment-bearing text. Beginning with an approach that used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Aditya Joshi , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark James Carman

The prevalence of sarcasm in multimodal dialogues on the social platforms presents a crucial yet challenging task for understanding the true intent behind online content. Comprehensive sarcasm analysis requires two key aspects: Multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Diandian Guo , Fangfang Yuan , Cong Cao , Xixun Lin , Chuan Zhou , Hao Peng , Yanan Cao , Yanbing Liu

Sarcasm detection is a key task for many natural language processing tasks. In sentiment analysis, for example, sarcasm can flip the polarity of an "apparently positive" sentence and, hence, negatively affect polarity detection performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Soujanya Poria , Erik Cambria , Devamanyu Hazarika , Prateek Vij

Sarcasm is a type of irony, characterized by an inherent mismatch between the literal interpretation and the intended connotation. Though sarcasm detection in text has been extensively studied, there are situations in which textual input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Sajal Aggarwal , Ananya Pandey , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

The role of predicting sarcasm in the text is known as automatic sarcasm detection. Given the prevalence and challenges of sarcasm in sentiment-bearing text, this is a critical phase in most sentiment analysis tasks. With the increasing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Bashar Talafha , Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Samer Suleiman , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub , Mohammed N. Al-Kabi

Sarcasm detection, as a crucial research direction in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), has attracted widespread attention. Traditional sarcasm detection tasks have typically focused on single-modal approaches (e.g., text),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yazhou Zhang , Chunwang Zou , Bo Wang , Jing Qin

Sarcasm typically conveys emotions of contempt or criticism by expressing a meaning that is contrary to the speaker's true intent. Accurate detection of sarcasm aids in identifying and filtering undesirable information on the Internet,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Tongguan Wang , Junkai Li , Guixin Su , Yongcheng Zhang , Dongyu Su , Yuxue Hu , Ying Sha

Sarcasm is the use of words usually used to either mock or annoy someone, or for humorous purposes. Sarcasm is largely used in social networks and microblogging websites, where people mock or censure in a way that makes it difficult even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Alif Tri Handoyo , Hidayaturrahman , Derwin Suhartono

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

Detecting sarcasm and verbal irony is critical for understanding people's actual sentiments and beliefs. Thus, the field of sarcasm analysis has become a popular research problem in natural language processing. As the community working on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Debanjan Ghosh , Avijit Vajpayee , Smaranda Muresan

The trigram `I love being' is expected to be followed by positive words such as `happy'. In a sarcastic sentence, however, the word `ignored' may be observed. The expected and the observed words are, thus, incongruous. We model sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Aditya Joshi , Samarth Agrawal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark Carman

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

The prominence of figurative language devices, such as sarcasm and irony, poses serious challenges for Arabic Sentiment Analysis (SA). While previous research works tackle SA and sarcasm detection separately, this paper introduces an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Abdelkader El Mahdaouy , Abdellah El Mekki , Kabil Essefar , Nabil El Mamoun , Ismail Berrada , Ahmed Khoumsi

Sarcasm understanding is a challenging problem in natural language processing, as it requires capturing the discrepancy between the surface meaning of an utterance and the speaker's intentions as well as the surrounding social context.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Keito Inoshita , Shinnosuke Mizuno

Interpreting figurative language such as sarcasm across multi-modal inputs presents unique challenges, often requiring task-specific fine-tuning and extensive reasoning steps. However, current Chain-of-Thought approaches do not efficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Aashish Anantha Ramakrishnan , Aadarsh Anantha Ramakrishnan , Dongwon Lee

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