CrystalNest at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Using Sarcasm Detection for Enhancing Sentiment Classification and Quantification

Raj Kumar Gupta, Yinping Yang


Abstract
This paper describes a system developed for a shared sentiment analysis task and its subtasks organized by SemEval-2017. A key feature of our system is the embedded ability to detect sarcasm in order to enhance the performance of sentiment classification. We first constructed an affect-cognition-sociolinguistics sarcasm features model and trained a SVM-based classifier for detecting sarcastic expressions from general tweets. For sentiment prediction, we developed CrystalNest– a two-level cascade classification system using features combining sarcasm score derived from our sarcasm classifier, sentiment scores from Alchemy, NRC lexicon, n-grams, word embedding vectors, and part-of-speech features. We found that the sarcasm detection derived features consistently benefited key sentiment analysis evaluation metrics, in different degrees, across four subtasks A-D.
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S17-2103
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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626–633
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https://aclanthology.org/S17-2103
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-2103
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Raj Kumar Gupta and Yinping Yang. 2017. CrystalNest at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Using Sarcasm Detection for Enhancing Sentiment Classification and Quantification. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), pages 626–633, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CrystalNest at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Using Sarcasm Detection for Enhancing Sentiment Classification and Quantification (Gupta & Yang, SemEval 2017)
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