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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

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

Sarcasm is a sophisticated way of wrapping any immanent truth, mes-sage, or even mockery within a hilarious manner. The advent of communications using social networks has mass-produced new avenues of socialization. It can be further said…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Sourav Das , Anup Kumar Kolya

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…

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Social media platforms like twitter and facebook have be- come two of the largest mediums used by people to express their views to- wards different topics. Generation of such large user data has made NLP tasks like sentiment analysis and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Sahil Swami , Ankush Khandelwal , Vinay Singh , Syed Sarfaraz Akhtar , Manish Shrivastava

Sarcasm is a linguistic phenomenon indicating a discrepancy between literal meanings and implied intentions. Due to its sophisticated nature, it is usually challenging to be detected from the text itself. As a result, multi-modal sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hui Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

Automatic sarcasm detection methods have traditionally been designed for maximum performance on a specific domain. This poses challenges for those wishing to transfer those approaches to other existing or novel domains, which may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Natalie Parde , Rodney D. Nielsen

Detecting arguments in online interactions is useful to understand how conflicts arise and get resolved. Users often use figurative language, such as sarcasm, either as persuasive devices or to attack the opponent by an ad hominem argument.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Debanjan Ghosh , Ritvik Shrivastava , Smaranda Muresan

This paper describes our submission to SemEval-2022 Task 6 on sarcasm detection and its five subtasks for English and Arabic. Sarcasm conveys a meaning which contradicts the literal meaning, and it is mainly found on social networks. It has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shubham Kumar Nigam , Mosab Shaheen

Sarcasm is a linguistic expression often used to communicate the opposite of what is said, usually something that is very unpleasant with an intention to insult or ridicule. Inherent ambiguity in sarcastic expressions, make sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Ramya Akula , Ivan Garibay

Sarcasm is a peculiar form of sentiment expression, where the surface sentiment differs from the implied sentiment. The detection of sarcasm in social media platforms has been applied in the past mainly to textual utterances where lexical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Rossano Schifanella , Paloma de Juan , Joel Tetreault , Liangliang Cao

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

We consider the distinction between intended and perceived sarcasm in the context of textual sarcasm detection. The former occurs when an utterance is sarcastic from the perspective of its author, while the latter occurs when the utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Silviu Oprea , Walid Magdy

The presence of sarcasm in conversational systems and social media like chatbots, Facebook, Twitter, etc. poses several challenges for downstream NLP tasks. This is attributed to the fact that the intended meaning of a sarcastic text is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Aditya Shah , Chandresh Kumar Maurya

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

Sarcasm is considered one of the most difficult problem in sentiment analysis. In our ob-servation on Indonesian social media, for cer-tain topics, people tend to criticize something using sarcasm. Here, we proposed two additional features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Edwin Lunando , Ayu Purwarianti

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

Sarcasm is a specific type of irony which involves discerning what is said from what is meant. Detecting sarcasm depends not only on the literal content of an utterance but also on non-verbal cues such as speaker's tonality, facial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Anisha Saha , Varsha Suresh , Timothy Hospedales , Vera Demberg

Sarcasm, a common feature of human communication, poses challenges in interpersonal interactions and human-machine interactions. Linguistic research has highlighted the importance of prosodic cues, such as variations in pitch, speaking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Xiyuan Gao , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Since their inception, transformer-based language models have led to impressive performance gains across multiple natural language processing tasks. For Arabic, the current state-of-the-art results on most datasets are achieved by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Amey Hengle , Atharva Kshirsagar , Shaily Desai , Manisha Marathe