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Sarcasm fundamentally alters meaning through tone and context, yet detecting it in speech remains a challenge due to data scarcity. In addition, existing detection systems often rely on multimodal data, limiting their applicability in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhu Li , Yuqing Zhang , Xiyuan Gao , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Social media has become a very popular source of information. With this popularity comes an interest in systems that can classify the information produced. This study tries to create such a system detecting irony in Twitter users. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Tibor L. R. Krols , Marie Mortensen , Ninell Oldenburg

In modern digital environments, users frequently express opinions on contentious topics, providing a wealth of information on prevailing attitudes. The systematic analysis of these opinions offers valuable insights for decision-making in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Bowen Zhang , Genan Dai , Fuqiang Niu , Nan Yin , Xiaomao Fan , Senzhang Wang , Xiaochun Cao , Hu Huang

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

The presence of toxic content has become a major problem for many online communities. Moderators try to limit this problem by implementing more and more refined comment filters, but toxic users are constantly finding new ways to circumvent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Éloi Brassard-Gourdeau , Richard Khoury

Multimodal sarcasm detection has attracted growing interest due to the rise of multimedia posts on social media. Understanding sarcastic image-text posts often requires external contextual knowledge, such as cultural references or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Soumyadeep Jana , Abhrajyoti Kundu , Sanasam Ranbir Singh

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

This paper presents our strategy to tackle the EACL WANLP-2021 Shared Task 2: Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection. One of the subtasks aims at developing a system that identifies whether a given Arabic tweet is sarcastic in nature or not, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Anshul Wadhawan

Understanding various humour styles is essential for comprehending the multifaceted nature of humour and its impact on fields such as psychology and artificial intelligence. This understanding has revealed that humour, depending on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Mary Ogbuka Kenneth , Foaad Khosmood , Abbas Edalat

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

Parody is an emerging phenomenon on social media, where individuals imitate a role or position opposite to their own, often for humor, provocation, or controversy. Detecting and analyzing parody can be challenging and is often reliant on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yilun Zheng , Sha Li , Fangkun Wu , Yang Ziyi , Lin Hongchao , Zhichao Hu , Cai Xinjun , Ziming Wang , Jinxuan Chen , Sitao Luan , Jiahao Xu , Lihui Chen

Much previous work has been done in attempting to identify humor in text. In this paper we extend that capability by proposing a new task: assessing whether or not a joke is humorous. We present a novel way of approaching this problem by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Orion Weller , Kevin Seppi

With the rapid growth of social media usage, a common trend has emerged where users often make sarcastic comments on posts. While sarcasm can sometimes be harmless, it can blur the line with cyberbullying, especially when used in negative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Pinky Pamecha , Chaitya Shah , Divyam Jain , Kashish Gandhi , Kiran Bhowmick , Meera Narvekar

Satire detection is essential for accurately extracting opinions from textual data and combating misinformation online. However, the lack of diverse corpora for satire leads to the problem of stylistic bias which impacts the models'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Asli Umay Ozturk , Recep Firat Cekinel , Pinar Karagoz

Online social platforms have been the battlefield of users with different emotions and attitudes toward each other in recent years. While sexism has been considered as a category of hateful speech in the literature, there is no…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Sima Sharifirad , Borna Jafarpour , Stan Matwin

This paper proposes the first multilingual (French, English and Arabic) and multicultural (Indo-European languages vs. less culturally close languages) irony detection system. We employ both feature-based models and neural architectures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Bilal Ghanem , Jihen Karoui , Farah Benamara , Paolo Rosso , Véronique Moriceau

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

Detecting semantic arguments of a predicate word has been conventionally modeled as a sentence-level task. The typical reader, however, perfectly interprets predicate-argument relations in a much wider context than just the sentence where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Paul Roit , Aviv Slobodkin , Eran Hirsch , Arie Cattan , Ayal Klein , Valentina Pyatkin , Ido Dagan

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

Valuable decisions and highly prioritized analysis now depend on applications such as facial biometrics, social media photo tagging, and human robots interactions. However, the ability to successfully deploy such applications is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Martha Teiko Teye , Yaw Marfo Missah , Emmanuel Ahene , Twum Frimpong , Auxane Boch