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Social media platforms have a vital role in the modern world, serving as conduits for communication, the exchange of ideas, and the establishment of networks. However, the misuse of these platforms through toxic comments, which can range…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mukaffi Bin Moin , Pronay Debnath , Usafa Akther Rifa , Rijeet Bin Anis

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 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 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

In recent years, YouTube has become the leading platform for Bangla movies and dramas, where viewers express their opinions in comments that convey their sentiments about the content. However, not all comments are relevant for sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Usafa Akther Rifa , Pronay Debnath , Busra Kamal Rafa , Shamaun Safa Hridi , Md. Aminur Rahman

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

Hate speech on digital platforms has become a growing concern globally, especially in linguistically diverse countries like Bangladesh, where regional dialects play a major role in everyday communication. Despite progress in hate speech…

Exponential growths of social media and micro-blogging sites not only provide platforms for empowering freedom of expressions and individual voices but also enables people to express anti-social behaviour like online harassment,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Md. Rezaul Karim , Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi , John P. McCrae , Michael Cochez

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

Sarcasm is a linguistic expression often used to communicate the opposite of what is said, usually something that is very unpleasant with an intention to insult or ridicule. Inherent ambiguity in sarcastic expressions, make sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Ramya Akula , Ivan Garibay

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 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 a key task for many natural language processing tasks. In sentiment analysis, for example, sarcasm can flip the polarity of an "apparently positive" sentence and, hence, negatively affect polarity detection performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Soujanya Poria , Erik Cambria , Devamanyu Hazarika , Prateek Vij

The negative effects of online bullying and harassment are increasing with Internet popularity, especially in social media. One solution is using natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) methods for the automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Tanjim Mahmud , Michal Ptaszynski , Fumito Masui

One of the most alarming issues in digital society is hate speech (HS) on social media. The severity is so high that researchers across the globe are captivated by this domain. A notable amount of work has been conducted to address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Md Abdullah Al Kafi , Sumit Kumar Banshal , Md Sadman Shakib , Showrov Azam , Tamanna Alam Tabashom

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

Sarcasm is a linguistic phenomenon indicating a discrepancy between literal meanings and implied intentions. Due to its sophisticated nature, it is usually challenging to be detected from the text itself. As a result, multi-modal sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hui Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

While sentiment and emotion analysis have been studied extensively, the relationship between sarcasm and emotion has largely remained unexplored. A sarcastic expression may have a variety of underlying emotions. For example, "I love being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Anupama Ray , Shubham Mishra , Apoorva Nunna , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

With the increased use of social media platforms by people across the world, many new interesting NLP problems have come into existence. One such being the detection of sarcasm in the social media texts. We present a corpus of tweets for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Akshita Aggarwal , Anshul Wadhawan , Anshima Chaudhary , Kavita Maurya

Sarcasm is common in online discussions, yet difficult for machines to identify because the intended meaning often contradicts the literal wording. In this work, I study sarcasm detection using only classical machine learning methods and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Subrata Karmaker