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Multimodal sarcasm detection (MSD) is essential for various downstream tasks. Existing MSD methods tend to rely on spurious correlations. These methods often mistakenly prioritize non-essential features yet still make correct predictions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Diandian Guo , Cong Cao , Fangfang Yuan , Yanbing Liu , Guangjie Zeng , Xiaoyan Yu , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Multimodal sarcasm detection, which aims to precisely identify pragmatic incongruities between literal text and nonverbal cues, has gained substantial attention in multimodal understanding. Recent advancements have predominantly relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Maoheng Li , Ling Zhou , Xiaohua Huang , Rubing Huang , Wenming Zheng , Guoying Zhao

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

Sarcasm detection remains a significant challenge due to its reliance on nuanced contextual understanding, world knowledge, and multi-faceted linguistic cues that vary substantially across different sarcastic expressions. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ziyang Zhou , Ziqi Liu , Yan Wang , Yiming Lin , Yangbin Chen

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 detection is the task of identifying irony containing utterances in sentiment-bearing text. However, the figurative and creative nature of sarcasm poses a great challenge for affective computing systems performing sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Hamed Yaghoobian , Hamid R. Arabnia , Khaled Rasheed

Aiming at the problem of difficulty in accurately identifying graphical implicit correlations in multimodal irony detection tasks, this paper proposes a Semantic Irony Recognition Network (SemIRNet). The model contains three main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jingxuan Zhou , Yuehao Wu , Yibo Zhang , Yeyubei Zhang , Yunchong Liu , Bolin Huang , Chunhong Yuan

Recent advancements in Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have enabled remarkable image understanding and generation capabilities. However, while models like Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image show emerging abilities to reason over multiple related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mingrui Wu , Hang Liu , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

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

Sarcasm detection in product reviews requires balancing domain-specific symbolic pattern recognition with deep semantic understanding. Symbolic representations capture explicit linguistic phenomena that are often decisive for sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Swapnil Mane , Vaibhav Khatavkar

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

Social media abounds with multimodal sarcasm, and identifying sarcasm targets is particularly challenging due to the implicit incongruity not directly evident in the text and image modalities. Current methods for Multimodal Sarcasm Target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hongzhan Lin , Zixin Chen , Ziyang Luo , Mingfei Cheng , Jing Ma , Guang Chen

Sarcasm is a linguistic expression often used to communicate the opposite of what is said, usually something that is very unpleasant with an intention to insult or ridicule. Inherent ambiguity in sarcastic expressions, make sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Ramya Akula , Ivan Garibay

Sarcasm detection, as a crucial research direction in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), has attracted widespread attention. Traditional sarcasm detection tasks have typically focused on single-modal approaches (e.g., text),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yazhou Zhang , Chunwang Zou , Bo Wang , Jing Qin

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

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

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 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

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

Various linguistic and non-linguistic clues, such as excessive emphasis on a word, a shift in the tone of voice, or an awkward expression, frequently convey sarcasm. The computer vision problem of sarcasm recognition in conversation aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ananya Pandey , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma