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Sarcasm, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is the use of words by someone who means the opposite of what he is trying to say. In the field of sentimental analysis of Natural Language Processing, the ability to correctly identify sarcasm is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Juliann Zhou

Sarcasm is a complex form of figurative language in which the intended meaning contradicts the literal one. Its prevalence in social media and popular culture poses persistent challenges for natural language understanding, sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Aaron Scott , Maike Züfle , Jan Niehues

Sarcasm is an intricate form of speech, where meaning is conveyed implicitly. Being a convoluted form of expression, detecting sarcasm is an assiduous problem. The difficulty in recognition of sarcasm has many pitfalls, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Kartikey Pant , Tanvi Dadu

In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism for enriching the feature vector, for the task of sarcasm detection, with cognitive features extracted from eye-movement patterns of human readers. Sarcasm detection has been a challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Abhijit Mishra , Diptesh Kanojia , Seema Nagar , Kuntal Dey , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Sarcasm detection identifies natural language expressions whose intended meaning is different from what is implied by its surface meaning. It finds applications in many NLP tasks such as opinion mining, sentiment analysis, etc. Today,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Sundesh Gupta , Aditya Shah , Miten Shah , Laribok Syiemlieh , Chandresh Maurya

Multimodal sarcasm detection is a complex task that requires distinguishing subtle complementary signals across modalities while filtering out irrelevant information. Many advanced methods rely on learning shortcuts from datasets rather…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yihua Wang , Qi Jia , Cong Xu , Feiyu Chen , Yuhan Liu , Haotian Zhang , Liang Jin , Lu Liu , Zhichun Wang

Sarcasm fundamentally alters meaning through tone and context, yet detecting it in speech remains a challenge due to data scarcity. In addition, existing detection systems often rely on multimodal data, limiting their applicability in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhu Li , Yuqing Zhang , Xiyuan Gao , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Recognizing sarcasm often requires a deep understanding of multiple sources of information, including the utterance, the conversational context, and real world facts. Most of the current sarcasm detection systems consider only the utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Reza Ghaeini , Xiaoli Z. Fern , Prasad Tadepalli

Sarcasm is a complex linguistic phenomenon that involves a disparity between literal and intended meanings, making it challenging for sentiment analysis and other emotion-sensitive tasks. While traditional sarcasm detection methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xinyu Wang , Yue Zhang , Liqiang Jing

The literature in automated sarcasm detection has mainly focused on lexical, syntactic and semantic-level analysis of text. However, a sarcastic sentence can be expressed with contextual presumptions, background and commonsense knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Sruthi Gorantla , Erik Cambria , Roger Zimmermann , Rada Mihalcea

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

Multimodal sarcasm detection (MSD) aims to identify sarcasm within image-text pairs by modeling semantic incongruities across modalities. Existing methods often exploit cross-modal embedding misalignment to detect inconsistency but struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Shuguang Zhang , Junhong Lian , Guoxin Yu , Baoxun Xu , Xiang Ao

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

Sarcasm detection and humor classification are inherently subtle problems, primarily due to their dependence on the contextual and non-verbal information. Furthermore, existing studies in these two topics are usually constrained in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Manjot Bedi , Shivani Kumar , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Sarcasm can be defined as saying or writing the opposite of what one truly wants to express, usually to insult, irritate, or amuse someone. Because of the obscure nature of sarcasm in textual data, detecting it is difficult and of great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Faria Binte Kader , Nafisa Hossain Nujat , Tasmia Binte Sogir , Mohsinul Kabir , Hasan Mahmud , Kamrul Hasan

Indirect speech such as sarcasm achieves a constellation of discourse goals in human communication. While the indirectness of figurative language warrants speakers to achieve certain pragmatic goals, it is challenging for AI agents to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Shivani Kumar , Atharva Kulkarni , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Sarcasm detection is an essential task that can help identify the actual sentiment in user-generated data, such as discussion forums or tweets. Sarcasm is a sophisticated form of linguistic expression because its surface meaning usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Oxana Vitman , Yevhen Kostiuk , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

Sarcasm detection is the task of identifying irony containing utterances in sentiment-bearing text. However, the figurative and creative nature of sarcasm poses a great challenge for affective computing systems performing sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Hamed Yaghoobian , Hamid R. Arabnia , Khaled Rasheed

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

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