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Predicting context-dependent and non-literal utterances like sarcastic and ironic expressions still remains a challenging task in NLP, as it goes beyond linguistic patterns, encompassing common sense and shared knowledge as crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Suzana Ilić , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Jorge A. Balazs , Yutaka Matsuo

With the advent of large vision-language models (LVLMs) demonstrating increasingly human-like abilities, a pivotal question emerges: do different LVLMs interpret multimodal sarcasm differently, and can a single model grasp sarcasm from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Junjie Chen , Xuyang Liu , Subin Huang , Linfeng Zhang , Hang Yu

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

Language models (LMs) trained on large amounts of data have shown impressive performance on many NLP tasks under the zero-shot and few-shot setup. Here we aim to better understand the extent to which such models learn commonsense knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Xiang Lorraine Li , Adhiguna Kuncoro , Jordan Hoffmann , Cyprien de Masson d'Autume , Phil Blunsom , Aida Nematzadeh

The role of predicting sarcasm in the text is known as automatic sarcasm detection. Given the prevalence and challenges of sarcasm in sentiment-bearing text, this is a critical phase in most sentiment analysis tasks. With the increasing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Bashar Talafha , Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Samer Suleiman , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub , Mohammed N. Al-Kabi

Many online comments on social media platforms are hateful, humorous, or sarcastic. The sarcastic nature of these comments (especially the short ones) alters their actual implied sentiments, which leads to misinterpretations by the existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Prakamya Mishra , Saroj Kaushik , Kuntal Dey

Sarcasm is a form of figurative language where the intended meaning of a sentence differs from its literal meaning. This poses a serious challenge to several Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as Sentiment Analysis, Opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Abdelkader El Mahdaouy , Abdellah El Mekki , Kabil Essefar , Abderrahman Skiredj , Ismail Berrada

Sentiments expressed in user-generated short text and sentences are nuanced by subtleties at lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels. To address this, we propose to augment traditional features used for sentiment analysis and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Abhijit Mishra , Diptesh Kanojia , Seema Nagar , Kuntal Dey , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Sarcasm is often expressed through several verbal and non-verbal cues, e.g., a change of tone, overemphasis in a word, a drawn-out syllable, or a straight looking face. Most of the recent work in sarcasm detection has been carried out on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Santiago Castro , Devamanyu Hazarika , Verónica Pérez-Rosas , Roger Zimmermann , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

Sarcasm is a term that refers to the use of words to mock, irritate, or amuse someone. It is commonly used on social media. The metaphorical and creative nature of sarcasm presents a significant difficulty for sentiment analysis systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Amirhossein Abaskohi , Arash Rasouli , Tanin Zeraati , Behnam Bahrak

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

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

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

We propose an unsupervised approach for sarcasm generation based on a non-sarcastic input sentence. Our method employs a retrieve-and-edit framework to instantiate two major characteristics of sarcasm: reversal of valence and semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Tuhin Chakrabarty , Debanjan Ghosh , Smaranda Muresan , Nanyun Peng

Sarcasm is a form of irony that involves saying or writing something that is opposite or opposite to what one really means, often in a humorous or mocking way. It is often used to mock or mock someone or something, or to be humorous or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ishita Goyal , Priyank Bhandia , Sanjana Dulam

Commonsense reasoning is an appealing topic in natural language processing (NLP) as it plays a fundamental role in supporting the human-like actions of NLP systems. With large-scale language models as the backbone, unsupervised pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Letian Peng , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

Despite serving as the foundation models for a wide range of NLP benchmarks, pre-trained language models have shown limited capabilities of acquiring implicit commonsense knowledge from self-supervision alone, compared to learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Wangchunshu Zhou , Ronan Le Bras , Yejin Choi

Many contextualized word representations are now learned by intricate neural network models, such as masked neural language models (MNLMs) which are made up of huge neural network structures and trained to restore the masked text. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Sunjae Kwon , Cheongwoong Kang , Jiyeon Han , Jaesik Choi

Online social media users react to content in them based on context. Emotions or mood play a significant part of these reactions, which has filled these platforms with opinionated content. Different approaches and applications to make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Po Chen Kuo , Fernando H. Calderon Alvarado , Yi-Shin Chen

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