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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

Detecting hate speech in non-direct forms, such as irony, sarcasm, and innuendos, remains a persistent challenge for social networks. Although sarcasm and hate speech are regarded as distinct expressions, our work explores whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Angelly Cabrera , Linus Lei , Antonio Ortega

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

A positive phrase or a sentence with an underlying negative motive is usually defined as sarcasm that is widely used in today's social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. In recent times active users in social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Ramisa Anan , Tasnim Sakib Apon , Zeba Tahsin Hossain , Elizabeth Antora Modhu , Sudipta Mondal , MD. Golam Rabiul Alam

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 detection is important for several NLP tasks such as sentiment identification in product reviews, user feedback, and online forums. It is a challenging task requiring a deep understanding of language, context, and world knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Snigdha Chaturvedi

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

We tested the robustness of sarcasm detection models by examining their behavior when fine-tuned on four sarcasm datasets containing varying characteristics of sarcasm: label source (authors vs. third-party), domain (social media/online vs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Hyewon Jang , Diego Frassinelli

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, 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

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

Recent work in automated sarcasm detection has placed a heavy focus on context and meta-data. Whilst certain utterances indeed require background knowledge and commonsense reasoning, previous works have only explored shallow models for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Devin Pelser , Hugh Murrell

Sarcasm is a form of irony that requires readers or listeners to interpret its intended meaning by considering context and social cues. Machine learning classification models have long had difficulty detecting sarcasm due to its social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Montgomery Gole , Williams-Paul Nwadiugwu , Andriy Miranskyy

One of the most crucial components of natural human-robot interaction is artificial intuition and its influence on dialog systems. The intuitive capability that humans have is undeniably extraordinary, and so remains one of the greatest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-21 N. Dianna Radpour , Vinay Ashokkumar

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

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

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 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

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

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