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

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Debanjan Ghosh , Alexander Richard Fabbri , Smaranda Muresan

Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks rely on labeled data to train machine learning models with high performance. However, data annotation is time-consuming and expensive, especially when the task involves a large amount of data or…

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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

We introduce the Self-Annotated Reddit Corpus (SARC), a large corpus for sarcasm research and for training and evaluating systems for sarcasm detection. The corpus has 1.3 million sarcastic statements -- 10 times more than any previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Mikhail Khodak , Nikunj Saunshi , Kiran Vodrahalli

Social categories and stereotypes are embedded in language and can introduce data bias into Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite safeguards, these biases often persist in model behavior, potentially leading to representational harm in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Rebekka Görge , Michael Mock , Héctor Allende-Cid

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

We consider the distinction between intended and perceived sarcasm in the context of textual sarcasm detection. The former occurs when an utterance is sarcastic from the perspective of its author, while the latter occurs when the utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Silviu Oprea , Walid Magdy

Text-based automated Cognitive Distortion detection is a challenging task due to its subjective nature, with low agreement scores observed even among expert human annotators, leading to unreliable annotations. We explore the use of Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Neha Sharma , Navneet Agarwal , Kairit Sirts

We introduce a deep neural network for automated sarcasm detection. Recent work has emphasized the need for models to capitalize on contextual features, beyond lexical and syntactic cues present in utterances. For example, different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Silvio Amir , Byron C. Wallace , Hao Lyu , Paula Carvalho Mário J. Silva

Detecting arguments in online interactions is useful to understand how conflicts arise and get resolved. Users often use figurative language, such as sarcasm, either as persuasive devices or to attack the opponent by an ad hominem argument.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Debanjan Ghosh , Ritvik Shrivastava , Smaranda Muresan

In the past decade, sarcasm detection has been intensively conducted in a textual scenario. With the popularization of video communication, the analysis in multi-modal scenarios has received much attention in recent years. Therefore,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Xiaoqiang Zhang , Ying Chen , Guangyuan Li

Irony and sarcasm are two complex linguistic phenomena that are widely used in everyday language and especially over the social media, but they represent two serious issues for automated text understanding. Many labeled corpora have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Giosué Lo Bosco , Giovanni Pilato

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

High annotation costs from hiring or crowdsourcing complicate the creation of large, high-quality datasets needed for training reliable text classifiers. Recent research suggests using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the annotation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Tomas Horych , Christoph Mandl , Terry Ruas , Andre Greiner-Petter , Bela Gipp , Akiko Aizawa , Timo Spinde

Sarcasm detection is an essential task that can help identify the actual sentiment in user-generated data, such as discussion forums or tweets. Sarcasm is a sophisticated form of linguistic expression because its surface meaning usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Oxana Vitman , Yevhen Kostiuk , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

In this work, we explore the capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to annotate hate speech and abusiveness while considering predefined annotator personas within the strong-to-weak data perspectivism spectra. We evaluated LLM-generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Olufunke O. Sarumi , Charles Welch , Daniel Braun , Jörg Schlötterer

Sarcastic speech synthesis, which involves generating speech that effectively conveys sarcasm, is essential for enhancing natural interactions in applications such as entertainment and human-computer interaction. However, synthesizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhu Li , Yuqing Zhang , Xiyuan Gao , Devraj Raghuvanshi , Nagendra Kumar , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Hate speech has emerged as a major problem plaguing our social spaces today. While there have been significant efforts to address this problem, existing methods are still significantly limited in effectively detecting hate speech online. A…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Keyan Guo , Alexander Hu , Jaden Mu , Ziheng Shi , Ziming Zhao , Nishant Vishwamitra , Hongxin Hu

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 detection is a key task for many natural language processing tasks. In sentiment analysis, for example, sarcasm can flip the polarity of an "apparently positive" sentence and, hence, negatively affect polarity detection performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Soujanya Poria , Erik Cambria , Devamanyu Hazarika , Prateek Vij