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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

Recent advances in open-source vision-language models (VLMs) offer new opportunities for understanding complex and subjective multimodal phenomena such as sarcasm. In this work, we evaluate seven state-of-the-art VLMs - BLIP2, InstructBLIP,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Saroj Basnet , Shafkat Farabi , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Diptesh Kanoji , Marcos Zampieri

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

During natural disasters, people often use social media platforms such as Twitter to ask for help, to provide information about the disaster situation, or to express contempt about the unfolding event or public policies and guidelines. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Tiberiu Sosea , Junyi Jessy Li , Cornelia Caragea

The language used in online forums differs in many ways from that of traditional language resources such as news. One difference is the use and frequency of nonliteral, subjective dialogue acts such as sarcasm. Whether the aim is to develop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Reid Swanson , Stephanie Lukin , Luke Eisenberg , Thomas Chase Corcoran , Marilyn A. Walker

Detecting sarcasm and verbal irony from people's subjective statements is crucial to understanding their intended meanings and real sentiments and positions in social scenarios. This paper describes the X-PuDu system that participated in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yaqian Han , Yekun Chai , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hongyi Huang , Guanghao Chen , Yitong Xu , Yang Yang

Sarcasm detection in product reviews requires balancing domain-specific symbolic pattern recognition with deep semantic understanding. Symbolic representations capture explicit linguistic phenomena that are often decisive for sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Swapnil Mane , Vaibhav Khatavkar

Sarcasm is a challenge to sentiment analysis because of the incongruity between stated and implied sentiment. The challenge is exacerbated when the implication may be relevant to a specific country or geographical region. Pragmatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Ishmanbir Singh , Dipankar Srirag , Aditya Joshi

Social media abounds with multimodal sarcasm, and identifying sarcasm targets is particularly challenging due to the implicit incongruity not directly evident in the text and image modalities. Current methods for Multimodal Sarcasm Target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hongzhan Lin , Zixin Chen , Ziyang Luo , Mingfei Cheng , Jing Ma , Guang Chen

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

Sarcasm detection, with its figurative nature, poses unique challenges for affective systems designed to perform sentiment analysis. While these systems typically perform well at identifying direct expressions of emotion, they struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ximing Wen , Rezvaneh Rezapour

Sarcasm is a rhetorical device that expresses criticism or emphasizes characteristics of certain individuals or situations through exaggeration, irony, or comparison. Existing methods for Chinese sarcasm detection are constrained by limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Wenxian Wang , Xiaohu Luo , Junfeng Hao , Xiaoming Gu , Xingshu Chen , Zhu Wang , Haizhou Wang

Conversations contain a wide spectrum of multimodal information that gives us hints about the emotions and moods of the speaker. In this paper, we developed a system that supports humans to analyze conversations. Our main contribution is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Joshua Y. Kim , Greyson Y. Kim , Kalina Yacef

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

Sarcasm detection is an important task in affective computing, requiring large amounts of labeled data. We introduce reactive supervision, a novel data collection method that utilizes the dynamics of online conversations to overcome the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Boaz Shmueli , Lun-Wei Ku , Soumya Ray

Sentiments expressed in user-generated short text and sentences are nuanced by subtleties at lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels. To address this, we propose to augment traditional features used for sentiment analysis and…

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

Sarcasm generation has been investigated in previous studies by considering it as a text-to-text generation problem, i.e., generating a sarcastic sentence for an input sentence. In this paper, we study a new problem of cross-modal sarcasm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jie Ruan , Yue Wu , Xiaojun Wan , Yuesheng Zhu

Sarcasm is a form of communication in whichthe person states opposite of what he actually means. It is ambiguous in nature. In this paper, we propose using machine learning techniques with BERT and GloVe embeddings to detect sarcasm in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Akshay Khatri , Pranav P , Anand Kumar M

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

Sarcasm is a form of figurative language where the intended meaning of a sentence differs from its literal meaning. This poses a serious challenge to several Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as Sentiment Analysis, Opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Abdelkader El Mahdaouy , Abdellah El Mekki , Kabil Essefar , Abderrahman Skiredj , Ismail Berrada
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