540 research outputs found
Are Word Embedding-based Features Useful for Sarcasm Detection?
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
enhanced using semantic similarity/discordance between word embeddings. We
augment word embedding-based features to four feature sets reported in the
past. We also experiment with four types of word embeddings. We observe an
improvement in sarcasm detection, irrespective of the word embedding used or
the original feature set to which our features are augmented. For example, this
augmentation results in an improvement in F-score of around 4\% for three out
of these four feature sets, and a minor degradation in case of the fourth, when
Word2Vec embeddings are used. Finally, a comparison of the four embeddings
shows that Word2Vec and dependency weight-based features outperform LSA and
GloVe, in terms of their benefit to sarcasm detection.Comment: The paper will be presented at Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2016 in November 2016.
http://www.emnlp2016.net
Detecting Sarcasm in Multimodal Social Platforms
Sarcasm is a peculiar form of sentiment expression, where the surface
sentiment differs from the implied sentiment. The detection of sarcasm in
social media platforms has been applied in the past mainly to textual
utterances where lexical indicators (such as interjections and intensifiers),
linguistic markers, and contextual information (such as user profiles, or past
conversations) were used to detect the sarcastic tone. However, modern social
media platforms allow to create multimodal messages where audiovisual content
is integrated with the text, making the analysis of a mode in isolation
partial. In our work, we first study the relationship between the textual and
visual aspects in multimodal posts from three major social media platforms,
i.e., Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter, and we run a crowdsourcing task to
quantify the extent to which images are perceived as necessary by human
annotators. Moreover, we propose two different computational frameworks to
detect sarcasm that integrate the textual and visual modalities. The first
approach exploits visual semantics trained on an external dataset, and
concatenates the semantics features with state-of-the-art textual features. The
second method adapts a visual neural network initialized with parameters
trained on ImageNet to multimodal sarcastic posts. Results show the positive
effect of combining modalities for the detection of sarcasm across platforms
and methods.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, final version published in the Proceedings of
ACM Multimedia 201
Computational Sarcasm Analysis on Social Media: A Systematic Review
Sarcasm can be defined as saying or writing the opposite of what one truly
wants to express, usually to insult, irritate, or amuse someone. Because of the
obscure nature of sarcasm in textual data, detecting it is difficult and of
great interest to the sentiment analysis research community. Though the
research in sarcasm detection spans more than a decade, some significant
advancements have been made recently, including employing unsupervised
pre-trained transformers in multimodal environments and integrating context to
identify sarcasm. In this study, we aim to provide a brief overview of recent
advancements and trends in computational sarcasm research for the English
language. We describe relevant datasets, methodologies, trends, issues,
challenges, and tasks relating to sarcasm that are beyond detection. Our study
provides well-summarized tables of sarcasm datasets, sarcastic features and
their extraction methods, and performance analysis of various approaches which
can help researchers in related domains understand current state-of-the-art
practices in sarcasm detection.Comment: 50 pages, 3 tables, Submitted to 'Data Mining and Knowledge
Discovery' for possible publicatio
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