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The language used in online forums differs in many ways from that of traditional language resources such as news. One difference is the use and frequency of nonliteral, subjective dialogue acts such as sarcasm. Whether the aim is to develop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Reid Swanson , Stephanie Lukin , Luke Eisenberg , Thomas Chase Corcoran , Marilyn A. Walker

With the rapid growth of social media usage, a common trend has emerged where users often make sarcastic comments on posts. While sarcasm can sometimes be harmless, it can blur the line with cyberbullying, especially when used in negative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Pinky Pamecha , Chaitya Shah , Divyam Jain , Kashish Gandhi , Kiran Bhowmick , Meera Narvekar

Sarcasm is a form of humor where expressions convey meanings opposite to their literal interpretations. Classifying and generating sarcasm using large language models is vital for interpreting human communication. Sarcasm poses challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lang Xiong , Raina Gao , Alyssa Jeong , Yicheng Fu , Sean O'Brien , Vasu Sharma , Kevin Zhu

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

Sentiment analysis becomes an essential part of every social network, as it enables decision-makers to know more about users' opinions in almost all life aspects. Despite its importance, there are multiple issues it encounters like the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Abdelrahman Kaseb , Mona Farouk

With growing role of social media in shaping public opinions and beliefs across the world, there has been an increased attention to identify and counter the problem of hate speech on social media. Hate speech on online spaces has serious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Prashanth Vijayaraghavan , Hugo Larochelle , Deb Roy

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

Past studies in Sarcasm Detection mostly make use of Twitter datasets collected using hashtag-based supervision but such datasets are noisy in terms of labels and language. Furthermore, many tweets are replies to other tweets, and detecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Rishabh Misra

Memes are used for spreading ideas through social networks. Although most memes are created for humor, some memes become hateful under the combination of pictures and text. Automatically detecting the hateful memes can help reduce their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yi Zhou , Zhenhao Chen

An increasingly common expression of online hate speech is multimodal in nature and comes in the form of memes. Designing systems to automatically detect hateful content is of paramount importance if we are to mitigate its undesirable…

The prominence of figurative language devices, such as sarcasm and irony, poses serious challenges for Arabic Sentiment Analysis (SA). While previous research works tackle SA and sarcasm detection separately, this paper introduces an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Abdelkader El Mahdaouy , Abdellah El Mekki , Kabil Essefar , Nabil El Mamoun , Ismail Berrada , Ahmed Khoumsi

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 is a pragmatic phenomenon in which speakers convey meanings that diverge from literal content, relying on an interaction between semantics and prosodic expression. However, how these cues jointly contribute to the recognition of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhu Li , Yuqing Zhang , Xiyuan Gao , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

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

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

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

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

This paper makes a simple increment to state-of-the-art in sarcasm detection research. Existing approaches are unable to capture subtle forms of context incongruity which lies at the heart of sarcasm. We explore if prior work can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Aditya Joshi , Vaibhav Tripathi , Kevin Patel , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark Carman

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

In this work we target the problem of hate speech detection in multimodal publications formed by a text and an image. We gather and annotate a large scale dataset from Twitter, MMHS150K, and propose different models that jointly analyze…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Raul Gomez , Jaume Gibert , Lluis Gomez , Dimosthenis Karatzas