3 research outputs found
Latent-Optimized Adversarial Neural Transfer for Sarcasm Detection
The existence of multiple datasets for sarcasm detection prompts us to apply
transfer learning to exploit their commonality. The adversarial neural transfer
(ANT) framework utilizes multiple loss terms that encourage the source-domain
and the target-domain feature distributions to be similar while optimizing for
domain-specific performance. However, these objectives may be in conflict,
which can lead to optimization difficulties and sometimes diminished transfer.
We propose a generalized latent optimization strategy that allows different
losses to accommodate each other and improves training dynamics. The proposed
method outperforms transfer learning and meta-learning baselines. In
particular, we achieve 10.02% absolute performance gain over the previous state
of the art on the iSarcasm dataset.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, published at NAACL-HLT 2021 conference, see
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.naacl-main.425
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