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Satire, irony, and sarcasm are techniques typically used to express humor and critique, rather than deceive; however, they can occasionally be mistaken for factual reporting, akin to fake news. These techniques can be applied at a more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu , Andreea Iuga , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Florin Pop

Multimodal learning is an emerging yet challenging research area. In this paper, we deal with multimodal sarcasm and humor detection from conversational videos and image-text pairs. Being a fleeting action, which is reflected across the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Shraman Pramanick , Aniket Roy , Vishal M. Patel

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

Sarcasm understanding is a challenging problem in natural language processing, as it requires capturing the discrepancy between the surface meaning of an utterance and the speaker's intentions as well as the surrounding social context.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Keito Inoshita , Shinnosuke Mizuno

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 detection is a significant challenge in sentiment analysis due to the nuanced and context-dependent nature of verbiage. We introduce Pragmatic Metacognitive Prompting (PMP) to improve the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Joshua Lee , Wyatt Fong , Alexander Le , Sur Shah , Kevin Han , Kevin Zhu

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 generation has been investigated in previous studies by considering it as a text-to-text generation problem, i.e., generating a sarcastic sentence for an input sentence. In this paper, we study a new problem of cross-modal sarcasm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jie Ruan , Yue Wu , Xiaojun Wan , Yuesheng Zhu

Multimodal sarcasm detection requires resolving pragmatic incongruity across textual, acoustic, and visual cues through cross-modal reasoning. To enable robust sarcasm reasoning with foundation models, we propose SarcasmMiner, a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhu Li , Yongjian Chen , Huiyuan Lai , Xiyuan Gao , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Effective models of social dialog must understand a broad range of rhetorical and figurative devices. Rhetorical questions (RQs) are a type of figurative language whose aim is to achieve a pragmatic goal, such as structuring an argument,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Shereen Oraby , Vrindavan Harrison , Amita Misra , Ellen Riloff , Marilyn Walker

Despite progress in multimodal sarcasm detection, existing datasets and methods predominantly focus on single-image scenarios, overlooking potential semantic and affective relations across multiple images. This leaves a gap in modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haochen Zhao , Yuyao Kong , Yongxiu Xu , Gaopeng Gou , Hongbo Xu , Yubin Wang , Haoliang Zhang

Sarcasm in social media, frequently conveyed through the interplay of text and images, presents significant challenges for sentiment analysis and intention mining. Existing multi-modal sarcasm detection approaches have been shown to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Junjie Chen , Hang Yu , Subin Huang , Sanmin Liu , Linfeng Zhang

We investigate the impact of using author context on textual sarcasm detection. We define author context as the embedded representation of their historical posts on Twitter and suggest neural models that extract these representations. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Silviu Oprea , Walid Magdy

Detecting sarcasm effectively requires a nuanced understanding of context, including vocal tones and facial expressions. The progression towards multimodal computational methods in sarcasm detection, however, faces challenges due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xiyuan Gao , Shubhi Bansal , Kushaan Gowda , Zhu Li , Shekhar Nayak , Nagendra Kumar , Matt Coler

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

More and more of the information on the web is dialogic, from Facebook newsfeeds, to forum conversations, to comment threads on news articles. In contrast to traditional, monologic resources such as news, highly social dialogue is very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Stephanie M. Lukin , Luke Eisenberg , Thomas Corcoran , Marilyn A. Walker

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

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

The prevalence of sarcasm in multimodal dialogues on the social platforms presents a crucial yet challenging task for understanding the true intent behind online content. Comprehensive sarcasm analysis requires two key aspects: Multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Diandian Guo , Fangfang Yuan , Cong Cao , Xixun Lin , Chuan Zhou , Hao Peng , Yanan Cao , Yanbing Liu

Condescending language use is caustic; it can bring dialogues to an end and bifurcate communities. Thus, systems for condescension detection could have a large positive impact. A challenge here is that condescension is often impossible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Zijian Wang , Christopher Potts