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The blurry line between nefarious fake news and protected-speech satire has been a notorious struggle for social media platforms. Further to the efforts of reducing exposure to misinformation on social media, purveyors of fake news have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Or Levi , Pedram Hosseini , Mona Diab , David A. Broniatowski

Sarcasm detection remains a challenge in natural language understanding, as sarcastic intent often relies on subtle cross-modal cues spanning text, speech, and vision. While prior work has primarily focused on textual or visual-textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhu Li , Xiyuan Gao , Yuqing Zhang , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Bangla-English code-mixing is widespread across South Asian social media, yet resources for implicit meaning identification in this setting remain scarce. Existing sentiment and sarcasm models largely focus on monolingual English or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Kazi Samin Yasar Alam , Md Tanbir Chowdhury , Tamim Ahmed , Ajwad Abrar , Md Rafid Haque

Metaphors and sarcasm are precious fruits of our highly evolved social communication skills. However, children with the condition then known as Asperger syndrome are known to have difficulties in comprehending sarcasm, even if they possess…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hiromu Yakura

Multimodal sarcasm detection has recently garnered significant attention. However, existing benchmarks suffer from coarse-grained annotations and limited cultural coverage, which hinder research into fine-grained semantic understanding. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junzhao Zhang , Hsiu-Yuan Huang , Chenming Tang , Yutong Yang , Yunfang Wu

Multimodal sarcasm detection requires reasoning over cross-modal incongruities between literal expression and intended meaning, yet the specific analytical perspectives needed vary across samples due to the diversity of sarcastic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yingjia Xu , Jiulong Wu , Bowen Zhang , Baokui Guo , Siyuan Chai , Min Cao

There is an increase in the proliferation of online hate commensurate with the rise in the usage of social media. In response, there is also a significant advancement in the creation of automated tools aimed at identifying harmful text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Rabiraj Bandyopadhyay , Dennis Assenmacher , Jose M. Alonso Moral , Claudia Wagner

Ironies can not only express stronger emotions but also show a sense of humor. With the development of social media, ironies are widely used in public. Although many prior research studies have been conducted in irony detection, few studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Mengdi Zhu , Zhiwei Yu , Xiaojun Wan

Human evaluation is often considered to be the gold standard method of evaluating a Natural Language Generation system. However, whilst its importance is accepted by the community at large, the quality of its execution is often brought into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Tyler Loakman , Aaron Maladry , Chenghua Lin

Indirect speech such as sarcasm achieves a constellation of discourse goals in human communication. While the indirectness of figurative language warrants speakers to achieve certain pragmatic goals, it is challenging for AI agents to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Shivani Kumar , Atharva Kulkarni , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

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 Natural Language Processing resources such as news, highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Stephanie Lukin , Marilyn Walker

Sarcasm detection is a significant challenge in sentiment analysis, particularly due to its nature of conveying opinions where the intended meaning deviates from the literal expression. This challenge is heightened in social media contexts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Aniket Deroy , Subhankar Maity

Metaphor and sarcasm are common figurative expressions in people's communication, especially on the Internet or the memes popular among teenagers. We create a new benchmark named NYK-MS (NewYorKer for Metaphor and Sarcasm), which contains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ke Chang , Hao Li , Junzhao Zhang , Yunfang Wu

Satirical news is considered to be entertainment, but it is potentially deceptive and harmful. Despite the embedded genre in the article, not everyone can recognize the satirical cues and therefore believe the news as true news. We observe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Fan Yang , Arjun Mukherjee , Eduard Dragut

Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding (MSU) has a wide range of applications in the news field such as public opinion analysis and forgery detection. However, existing MSU benchmarks and approaches usually focus on sentence-level MSU. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Hang Du , Guoshun Nan , Sicheng Zhang , Binzhu Xie , Junrui Xu , Hehe Fan , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao , Xudong Jiang

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

This paper describes the systems submitted to iSarcasm shared task. The aim of iSarcasm is to identify the sarcastic contents in Arabic and English text. Our team participated in iSarcasm for the Arabic language. A multi-Layer machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Nsrin Ashraf , Fathy Elkazaz , Mohamed Taha , Hamada Nayel , Tarek Elshishtawy

Sarcasm detection in product reviews requires balancing domain-specific symbolic pattern recognition with deep semantic understanding. Symbolic representations capture explicit linguistic phenomena that are often decisive for sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Swapnil Mane , Vaibhav Khatavkar

Multi-modal sarcasm detection has attracted much recent attention. Nevertheless, the existing benchmark (MMSD) has some shortcomings that hinder the development of reliable multi-modal sarcasm detection system: (1) There are some spurious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Libo Qin , Shijue Huang , Qiguang Chen , Chenran Cai , Yudi Zhang , Bin Liang , Wanxiang Che , Ruifeng Xu

The widespread use of multimodal content on social media has heightened the need for effective sarcasm detection to improve opinion mining. However, existing models rely heavily on large annotated datasets, making them less suitable for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Soumyadeep Jana , Abhrajyoti Kundu , Sanasam Ranbir Singh