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Most widely-used pre-trained language models operate on sequences of tokens corresponding to word or subword units. By comparison, token-free models that operate directly on raw text (bytes or characters) have many benefits: they can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Linting Xue , Aditya Barua , Noah Constant , Rami Al-Rfou , Sharan Narang , Mihir Kale , Adam Roberts , Colin Raffel

Stance Detection (SD) on social media has emerged as a prominent area of interest with implications for social business and political applications thereby garnering escalating research attention within NLP. The inherent subtlety and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Gibson Nkhata , Susan Gauch

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

Sarcasm detection in multilingual and code-mixed environments remains a challenging task for natural language processing models due to structural variations, informal expressions, and low-resource linguistic availability. This study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Bitan Majumder , Anirban Sen

The pervasive use of the Internet and social media introduces significant challenges to automated sentiment analysis, particularly for sarcastic expressions in user-generated content. Sarcasm conveys negative emotions through ostensibly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zhenkai Qin , Qining Luo , Xunyi Nong

This paper presents a comprehensive examination of the impact of tokenization strategies and vocabulary sizes on the performance of Arabic language models in downstream natural language processing tasks. Our investigation focused on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Mohamed Taher Alrefaie , Nour Eldin Morsy , Nada Samir

Sarcasm is a form of irony that requires readers or listeners to interpret its intended meaning by considering context and social cues. Machine learning classification models have long had difficulty detecting sarcasm due to its social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Montgomery Gole , Williams-Paul Nwadiugwu , Andriy Miranskyy

A positive phrase or a sentence with an underlying negative motive is usually defined as sarcasm that is widely used in today's social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. In recent times active users in social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Ramisa Anan , Tasnim Sakib Apon , Zeba Tahsin Hossain , Elizabeth Antora Modhu , Sudipta Mondal , MD. Golam Rabiul Alam

Sarcasm is an intricate form of speech, where meaning is conveyed implicitly. Being a convoluted form of expression, detecting sarcasm is an assiduous problem. The difficulty in recognition of sarcasm has many pitfalls, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Kartikey Pant , Tanvi Dadu

Sarcasm, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is the use of words by someone who means the opposite of what he is trying to say. In the field of sentimental analysis of Natural Language Processing, the ability to correctly identify sarcasm is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Juliann Zhou

Sarcasm is the use of words usually used to either mock or annoy someone, or for humorous purposes. Sarcasm is largely used in social networks and microblogging websites, where people mock or censure in a way that makes it difficult even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Alif Tri Handoyo , Hidayaturrahman , Derwin Suhartono

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

Automatic sarcasm detection methods have traditionally been designed for maximum performance on a specific domain. This poses challenges for those wishing to transfer those approaches to other existing or novel domains, which may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Natalie Parde , Rodney D. Nielsen

We present a transformer-based sarcasm detection model that accounts for the context from the entire conversation thread for more robust predictions. Our model uses deep transformer layers to perform multi-head attentions among the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xiangjue Dong , Changmao Li , Jinho D. Choi

Subword tokenization is a commonly used input pre-processing step in most recent NLP models. However, it limits the models' ability to leverage end-to-end task learning. Its frequency-based vocabulary creation compromises tokenization in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Md Mofijul Islam , Gustavo Aguilar , Pragaash Ponnusamy , Clint Solomon Mathialagan , Chengyuan Ma , Chenlei Guo

Sarcasm is a type of irony, characterized by an inherent mismatch between the literal interpretation and the intended connotation. Though sarcasm detection in text has been extensively studied, there are situations in which textual input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Sajal Aggarwal , Ananya Pandey , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

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

This study aimed to investigate the influence of the presence of informal language, such as emoticons and slang, on the performance of sentiment analysis models applied to social media text. A convolutional neural network (CNN) model was…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Aadil Gani Ganie

With the increased use of social media platforms by people across the world, many new interesting NLP problems have come into existence. One such being the detection of sarcasm in the social media texts. We present a corpus of tweets for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Akshita Aggarwal , Anshul Wadhawan , Anshima Chaudhary , Kavita Maurya

Social media offer an abundant source of valuable raw data, however informal writing can quickly become a bottleneck for many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Off-the-shelf tools are usually trained on formal text and cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Ismini Lourentzou , Kabir Manghnani , ChengXiang Zhai