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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

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

Sarcasm, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is the use of words by someone who means the opposite of what he is trying to say. In the field of sentimental analysis of Natural Language Processing, the ability to correctly identify sarcasm is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Juliann Zhou

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 the task of identifying irony containing utterances in sentiment-bearing text. However, the figurative and creative nature of sarcasm poses a great challenge for affective computing systems performing sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Hamed Yaghoobian , Hamid R. Arabnia , Khaled Rasheed

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

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

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

Topic Models have been reported to be beneficial for aspect-based sentiment analysis. This paper reports a simple topic model for sarcasm detection, a first, to the best of our knowledge. Designed on the basis of the intuition that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Aditya Joshi , Prayas Jain , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark Carman

During natural disasters, people often use social media platforms such as Twitter to ask for help, to provide information about the disaster situation, or to express contempt about the unfolding event or public policies and guidelines. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Tiberiu Sosea , Junyi Jessy Li , Cornelia Caragea

Irony and sarcasm are two complex linguistic phenomena that are widely used in everyday language and especially over the social media, but they represent two serious issues for automated text understanding. Many labeled corpora have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Giosué Lo Bosco , Giovanni Pilato

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

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

This paper makes a simple increment to state-of-the-art in sarcasm detection research. Existing approaches are unable to capture subtle forms of context incongruity which lies at the heart of sarcasm. We explore if prior work can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Aditya Joshi , Vaibhav Tripathi , Kevin Patel , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark Carman

Existing sarcasm detection systems focus on exploiting linguistic markers, context, or user-level priors. However, social studies suggest that the relationship between the author and the audience can be equally relevant for the sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Joan Plepi , Lucie Flek

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

Being one of the most widely spoken language in the world, the use of Bangla has been increasing in the world of social media as well. Sarcasm is a positive statement or remark with an underlying negative motivation that is extensively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Tasnim Sakib Apon , Ramisa Anan , Elizabeth Antora Modhu , Arjun Suter , Ifrit Jamal Sneha , MD. Golam Rabiul Alam

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

The enormous use of sarcastic text in all forms of communication in social media will have a physiological effect on target users. Each user has a different approach to misusing and recognising sarcasm. Sarcasm detection is difficult even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Swapnil Mane , Vaibhav Khatavkar

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