Magnets for Sarcasm: Making Sarcasm Detection Timely, Contextual and Very Personal

Aniruddha Ghosh, Tony Veale


Abstract
Sarcasm is a pervasive phenomenon in social media, permitting the concise communication of meaning, affect and attitude. Concision requires wit to produce and wit to understand, which demands from each party knowledge of norms, context and a speaker’s mindset. Insight into a speaker’s psychological profile at the time of production is a valuable source of context for sarcasm detection. Using a neural architecture, we show significant gains in detection accuracy when knowledge of the speaker’s mood at the time of production can be inferred. Our focus is on sarcasm detection on Twitter, and show that the mood exhibited by a speaker over tweets leading up to a new post is as useful a cue for sarcasm as the topical context of the post itself. The work opens the door to an empirical exploration not just of sarcasm in text but of the sarcastic state of mind.
Anthology ID:
D17-1050
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
Venue:
EMNLP
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SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
482–491
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D17-1050
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-1050
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Cite (ACL):
Aniruddha Ghosh and Tony Veale. 2017. Magnets for Sarcasm: Making Sarcasm Detection Timely, Contextual and Very Personal. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 482–491, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Magnets for Sarcasm: Making Sarcasm Detection Timely, Contextual and Very Personal (Ghosh & Veale, EMNLP 2017)
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-1050.pdf
Code
 AniSkywalker/SarcasmDetection