Any human reader out there can probably identify hints of sarcasm in these sentences (as it happens, this is a double sarcasm bluff: the paper’s actually pretty darn interesting). A computer, however, ...

Between the rolled eyes, shrugged shoulders, jazzed hands and warbling vocal inflection, it’s not hard to tell when someone’s being sarcastic as they’re giving you the business face to face. Online, ...

A student has developed a computerized learning system that can detect emotional sentiments, such as sarcasm and irony, in text messages and emails. It could help detect content that suggests suicidal ...

If you’ve ever been fooled by an Onion headline on Twitter, you’re not alone: Computational models aren’t great at detecting sarcasm either. That’s a problem in a world where the information ecosystem ...

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Without a helpful hashtag, picking up on sarcasm online can be hard even for humans. For literal-minded computers, it’s often a major headache. But now a machine learning system can automatically ...

Sarcasm detection and sentiment analysis represent critical challenges in the interpretation of social media communications. The subtle and often context-dependent nature of sarcasm complicates ...

Humans pick up on sarcasm instinctively and usually do not need help figuring out if, say, a social media post has a mocking tone. Machines have a much tougher time with this because they are ...