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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

Deep learning models for automatic readability assessment generally discard linguistic features traditionally used in machine learning models for the task. We propose to incorporate linguistic features into neural network models by learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Xinying Qiu , Yuan Chen , Hanwu Chen , Jian-Yun Nie , Yuming Shen , Dawei Lu

We present a transformer-based sarcasm detection model that accounts for the context from the entire conversation thread for more robust predictions. Our model uses deep transformer layers to perform multi-head attentions among the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xiangjue Dong , Changmao Li , Jinho D. Choi

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

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

Computational models for sarcasm detection have often relied on the content of utterances in isolation. However, the speaker's sarcastic intent is not always apparent without additional context. Focusing on social media discussions, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Debanjan Ghosh , Alexander R. Fabbri , Smaranda Muresan

The sarcasm detection task in natural language processing tries to classify whether an utterance is sarcastic or not. It is related to sentiment analysis since it often inverts surface sentiment. Because sarcastic sentences are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Lazar Đoković , Marko Robnik-Šikonja

Sarcasm is a rhetorical device that is used to convey the opposite of the literal meaning of an utterance. Sarcasm is widely used on social media and other forms of computer-mediated communication motivating the use of computational models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shafkat Farabi , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Diptesh Kanojia , Yu Kong , Marcos Zampieri

With the increased use of social media platforms by people across the world, many new interesting NLP problems have come into existence. One such being the detection of sarcasm in the social media texts. We present a corpus of tweets for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Akshita Aggarwal , Anshul Wadhawan , Anshima Chaudhary , Kavita Maurya

Multimodal sarcasm detection, which aims to precisely identify pragmatic incongruities between literal text and nonverbal cues, has gained substantial attention in multimodal understanding. Recent advancements have predominantly relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Maoheng Li , Ling Zhou , Xiaohua Huang , Rubing Huang , Wenming Zheng , Guoying Zhao

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

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 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

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

Deep dictionary learning seeks multiple dictionaries at different image scales to capture complementary coherent characteristics. We propose a method for learning a hierarchy of synthesis dictionaries with an image classification goal. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

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

Sentence matching is widely used in various natural language tasks such as natural language inference, paraphrase identification, and question answering. For these tasks, understanding logical and semantic relationship between two sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Seonhoon Kim , Inho Kang , Nojun Kwak

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

Recognition and classification of Figurative Language (FL) is an open problem of Sentiment Analysis in the broader field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) due to the contradictory meaning contained in phrases with metaphorical content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Georgios Siolas , Andreas - Georgios Stafylopatis

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