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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

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

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

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

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

Sarcasm detection, with its figurative nature, poses unique challenges for affective systems designed to perform sentiment analysis. While these systems typically perform well at identifying direct expressions of emotion, they struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ximing Wen , Rezvaneh Rezapour

Sarcasm Detection has enjoyed great interest from the research community, however the task of predicting sarcasm in a text remains an elusive problem for machines. Past studies mostly make use of twitter datasets collected using hashtag…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Rishabh Misra , Prahal Arora

Recent advances in open-source vision-language models (VLMs) offer new opportunities for understanding complex and subjective multimodal phenomena such as sarcasm. In this work, we evaluate seven state-of-the-art VLMs - BLIP2, InstructBLIP,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Saroj Basnet , Shafkat Farabi , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Diptesh Kanoji , Marcos Zampieri

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

Computational models for sarcasm detection have often relied on the content of utterances in isolation. However, the speaker's sarcastic intent is not always apparent without additional context. Focusing on social media discussions, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Debanjan Ghosh , Alexander R. Fabbri , Smaranda Muresan

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

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

Multimodal Sarcasm Explanation (MuSE) is a new yet challenging task, which aims to generate a natural language sentence for a multimodal social post (an image as well as its caption) to explain why it contains sarcasm. Although the existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Liqiang Jing , Xuemeng Song , Kun Ouyang , Mengzhao Jia , Liqiang Nie

Multimodal sarcasm detection (MSD) aims to identify sarcastic intent from semantic incongruity between text and image. Although recent methods have improved MSD through cross-modal interaction and incongruity reasoning, most still treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhenyu Wang , Weichen Cheng , Weijia Li , Junjie Mou , Zongyou Zhao , Guoying Zhang

Social media is daily creating massive multimedia content with paired image and text, presenting the pressing need to automate the vision and language understanding for various multimodal classification tasks. Compared to the commonly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chunpu Xu , Jing Li

As computer-generated content and deepfakes make steady improvements, semantic approaches to multimedia forensics will become more important. In this paper, we introduce a novel classification architecture for identifying semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Scott McCrae , Kehan Wang , Avideh Zakhor

Sarcasm recognition is challenging because it needs an understanding of the true intention, which is opposite to or different from the literal meaning of the words. Prior work has addressed this challenge by developing a series of methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ojas Nimase , Sanghyun Hong

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

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

The introduction of the MUStARD dataset, and its emotion recognition extension MUStARD++, have identified sarcasm to be a multi-modal phenomenon -- expressed not only in natural language text, but also through manners of speech (like…