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Sarcasm employs ambivalence, where one says something positive but actually means negative, and vice versa. The essence of sarcasm, which is also a sufficient and necessary condition, is the conflict between literal and implied sentiments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Yiyi Liu , Yequan Wang , Aixin Sun , Xuying Meng , Jing Li , Jiafeng Guo

Aspect-Target Sentiment Classification (ATSC) is a subtask of Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA), which has many applications e.g. in e-commerce, where data and insights from reviews can be leveraged to create value for businesses and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Alexander Rietzler , Sebastian Stabinger , Paul Opitz , Stefan Engl

Sarcasm detection is challenging for both humans and machines. This work explores how model characteristics impact sarcasm detection in OpenAI's GPT, and Meta's Llama-2 models, given their strong natural language understanding, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Montgomery Gole , Andriy Miranskyy

Social media platforms are rich sources of opinionated content. Stance detection allows the automatic extraction of users' opinions on various topics from such content. We focus on zero-shot stance detection, where the model's success…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Maksym Taranukhin , Vered Shwartz , Evangelos Milios

Zero-shot stance detection (ZSSD) seeks to determine the stance of text toward previously unseen targets, a task critical for analyzing dynamic and polarized online discourse with limited labeled data. While large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Bowen Zhang , Jun Ma , Fuqiang Niu , Li Dong , Jinzhou Cao , Genan Dai

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

Despite the increasing popularity of the stance detection task, existing approaches are predominantly limited to using the textual content of social media posts for the classification, overlooking the social nature of the task. The stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Parisa Jamadi Khiabani , Arkaitz Zubiaga

The abundance of social media data has presented opportunities for accurately determining public and group-specific stances around policy proposals or controversial topics. In contrast with sentiment analysis which focuses on identifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Nayoung Kim , David Mosallanezhad , Lu Cheng , Michelle V. Mancenido , Huan Liu

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) remains underdiagnosed in clinical settings, presenting opportunities for automated detection to identify patients. This study evaluates natural language processing approaches for detecting PTSD from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Feng Chen , Dror Ben-Zeev , Gillian Sparks , Arya Kadakia , Trevor Cohen

Detecting deviant language such as sexism, or nuanced language such as metaphors or sarcasm, is crucial for enhancing the safety, clarity, and interpretation of online social discourse. While existing classifiers deliver strong results on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chenlu Wang , Weimin Lyu , Ritwik Banerjee

Sarcasm is a complex linguistic phenomenon that involves a disparity between literal and intended meanings, making it challenging for sentiment analysis and other emotion-sensitive tasks. While traditional sarcasm detection methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xinyu Wang , Yue Zhang , Liqiang Jing

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

Currently, under supervised learning, a model pretrained by a large-scale nature scene dataset and then fine-tuned on a few specific task labeling data is the paradigm that has dominated the knowledge transfer learning. It has reached the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Tong Zhang , Peng Gao , Hao Dong , Yin Zhuang , Guanqun Wang , Wei Zhang , He Chen

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

Paraphrase detection is an important task in text analytics with numerous applications such as plagiarism detection, duplicate question identification, and enhanced customer support helpdesks. Deep models have been proposed for representing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Muhammad Haroon Shakeel , Asim Karim , Imdadullah Khan

Speaker Change Detection (SCD) is to identify boundaries among speakers in a conversation. Motivated by the success of fine-tuning wav2vec 2.0 models for the SCD task, a further investigation of self-supervised learning (SSL) features for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Yue Li , Xinsheng Wang , Li Zhang , Lei Xie

Scene Text Recognition (STR), the task of recognizing text against complex image backgrounds, is an active area of research. Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods still struggle to recognize text written in arbitrary shapes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Ron Litman , Oron Anschel , Shahar Tsiper , Roee Litman , Shai Mazor , R. Manmatha

This paper focuses on sarcasm detection, which aims to identify whether given statements convey criticism, mockery, or other negative sentiment opposite to the literal meaning. To detect sarcasm, humans often require a comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ziqi Qiu , Jianxing Yu , Yufeng Zhang , Hanjiang Lai , Yanghui Rao , Qinliang Su , Jian Yin

Unsupervised sentence embedding aims to obtain the most appropriate embedding for a sentence to reflect its semantic. Contrastive learning has been attracting developing attention. For a sentence, current models utilize diverse data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Hao Wang , Yangguang Li , Zhen Huang , Yong Dou , Lingpeng Kong , Jing Shao

Social support, conveyed through a multitude of interactions and platforms such as social media, plays a pivotal role in fostering a sense of belonging, aiding resilience in the face of challenges, and enhancing overall well-being. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Zahra Ahani , Moein Shahiki Tash , Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi , Luis Ramos , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh