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Sarcasm is a peculiar form of sentiment expression, where the surface sentiment differs from the implied sentiment. The detection of sarcasm in social media platforms has been applied in the past mainly to textual utterances where lexical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Rossano Schifanella , Paloma de Juan , Joel Tetreault , Liangliang Cao

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

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

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

Sarcasm detection and humor classification are inherently subtle problems, primarily due to their dependence on the contextual and non-verbal information. Furthermore, existing studies in these two topics are usually constrained in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Manjot Bedi , Shivani Kumar , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Despite commendable achievements made by existing work, prevailing multimodal sarcasm detection studies rely more on textual content over visual information. It unavoidably induces spurious correlations between textual words and labels,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mengzhao Jia , Can Xie , Liqiang Jing

Various linguistic and non-linguistic clues, such as excessive emphasis on a word, a shift in the tone of voice, or an awkward expression, frequently convey sarcasm. The computer vision problem of sarcasm recognition in conversation aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ananya Pandey , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

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

Interpreting figurative language such as sarcasm across multi-modal inputs presents unique challenges, often requiring task-specific fine-tuning and extensive reasoning steps. However, current Chain-of-Thought approaches do not efficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Aashish Anantha Ramakrishnan , Aadarsh Anantha Ramakrishnan , Dongwon Lee

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

Sarcasm detection identifies natural language expressions whose intended meaning is different from what is implied by its surface meaning. It finds applications in many NLP tasks such as opinion mining, sentiment analysis, etc. Today,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Sundesh Gupta , Aditya Shah , Miten Shah , Laribok Syiemlieh , Chandresh Maurya

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

Sarcasm is a complex form of figurative language in which the intended meaning contradicts the literal one. Its prevalence in social media and popular culture poses persistent challenges for natural language understanding, sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Aaron Scott , Maike Züfle , Jan Niehues

Sarcasm detection remains a significant challenge due to its reliance on nuanced contextual understanding, world knowledge, and multi-faceted linguistic cues that vary substantially across different sarcastic expressions. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ziyang Zhou , Ziqi Liu , Yan Wang , Yiming Lin , Yangbin Chen

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

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

Sarcasm, a common feature of human communication, poses challenges in interpersonal interactions and human-machine interactions. Linguistic research has highlighted the importance of prosodic cues, such as variations in pitch, speaking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Xiyuan Gao , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Social media abounds with multimodal sarcasm, and identifying sarcasm targets is particularly challenging due to the implicit incongruity not directly evident in the text and image modalities. Current methods for Multimodal Sarcasm Target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hongzhan Lin , Zixin Chen , Ziyang Luo , Mingfei Cheng , Jing Ma , Guang Chen

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

The rapid emergence of multimodal deepfakes (visual and auditory content are manipulated in concert) undermines the reliability of existing detectors that rely solely on modality-specific artifacts or cross-modal inconsistencies. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yuxuan Du , Zhendong Wang , Yuhao Luo , Caiyong Piao , Zhiyuan Yan , Hao Li , Li Yuan