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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Mohammadreza Rezvan , Saeedeh Shekarpour , Faisal Alshargi , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , Valerie L. Shalin , Amit Sheth

Sarcasm in social media, frequently conveyed through the interplay of text and images, presents significant challenges for sentiment analysis and intention mining. Existing multi-modal sarcasm detection approaches have been shown to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Junjie Chen , Hang Yu , Subin Huang , Sanmin Liu , Linfeng Zhang

Detecting sarcasm effectively requires a nuanced understanding of context, including vocal tones and facial expressions. The progression towards multimodal computational methods in sarcasm detection, however, faces challenges due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xiyuan Gao , Shubhi Bansal , Kushaan Gowda , Zhu Li , Shekhar Nayak , Nagendra Kumar , Matt Coler

Abusive language detection has become an increasingly important task as a means to tackle this type of harmful content in social media. There has been a substantial body of research developing models for determining if a social media post…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Raneem Alharthi , Rajwa Alharthi , Aiqi Jiang , Arkaitz Zubiaga

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

Online social media has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its ease of access and ability to connect with others. One of social media's main draws is its anonymity, allowing users to share their thoughts and opinions without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Vigneshwaran Shankaran , Rajesh Sharma

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

Language identification is a critical component of language processing pipelines (Jauhiainen et al.,2019) and is not a solved problem in real-world settings. We present a lightweight and effective language identifier that is robust to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Dominic Widdows , Chris Brew

Discourse relations are typically modeled as a discrete class that characterizes the relation between segments of text (e.g. causal explanations, expansions). However, such predefined discrete classes limits the universe of potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Youngseo Son , Vasudha Varadarajan , H Andrew Schwartz

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

Despite large language models (LLMs) being known to exhibit bias against non-standard language varieties, there are no known labelled datasets for sentiment analysis of English. To address this gap, we introduce BESSTIE, a benchmark for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Dipankar Srirag , Aditya Joshi , Jordan Painter , Diptesh Kanojia

Sarcastic speech synthesis, which involves generating speech that effectively conveys sarcasm, is essential for enhancing natural interactions in applications such as entertainment and human-computer interaction. However, synthesizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhu Li , Yuqing Zhang , Xiyuan Gao , Devraj Raghuvanshi , Nagendra Kumar , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks, including sentiment analysis. However, data quality--particularly when sourced from social media--can significantly impact their accuracy. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Naman Bhargava , Mohammed I. Radaideh , O Hwang Kwon , Aditi Verma , Majdi I. Radaideh

Hate speech has grown into a pervasive phenomenon, intensifying during times of crisis, elections, and social unrest. Multiple approaches have been developed to detect hate speech using artificial intelligence, but a generalized model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Gautam Kishore Shahi , Tim A. Majchrzak

Social media is daily creating massive multimedia content with paired image and text, presenting the pressing need to automate the vision and language understanding for various multimodal classification tasks. Compared to the commonly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chunpu Xu , Jing Li

Multimodal sarcasm detection requires resolving pragmatic incongruity across textual, acoustic, and visual cues through cross-modal reasoning. To enable robust sarcasm reasoning with foundation models, we propose SarcasmMiner, a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhu Li , Yongjian Chen , Huiyuan Lai , Xiyuan Gao , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Figurative Language (FL) seems ubiquitous in all social-media discussion forums and chats, posing extra challenges to sentiment analysis endeavors. Identification of FL schemas in short texts remains largely an unresolved issue in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Georgios Siolas , Andreas - Georgios Stafylopatis

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 detection poses a fundamental challenge in computational semantics, requiring models to resolve disparities between literal and intended meaning. The challenge is amplified in low-resource languages where annotated datasets are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Toheeb Aduramomi Jimoh , Tabea De Wille , Nikola S. Nikolov

Hate speech is a widespread and harmful form of online discourse, encompassing slurs and defamatory posts that can have serious social, psychological, and sometimes physical impacts on targeted individuals and communities. As social media…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Santosh Chapagain , Shah Muhammad Hamdi , Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi