Abstract
Sarcasm is a linguistic expression often used to communicate the opposite of what is said, usually something that is very unpleasant with an intention to insult or ridicule. Inherent ambiguity in sarcastic expressions makes sarcasm detection very difficult. In this work, we focus on detecting sarcasm in textual conversations, written in English, from various social networking platforms and online media. To this end, we develop an interpretable deep learning model using multi-head self-attention and gated recurrent units. We show the effectiveness and interpretability of our approach by achieving state-of-the-art results on datasets from social networking platforms, online discussion forums, and political dialogues.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.wassa-1.4
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
- Month:
- April
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Orphee De Clercq, Alexandra Balahur, Joao Sedoc, Valentin Barriere, Shabnam Tafreshi, Sven Buechel, Veronique Hoste
- Venue:
- WASSA
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 34–39
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.wassa-1.4
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Ramya Akula and Ivan Garibay. 2021. Explainable Detection of Sarcasm in Social Media. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, pages 34–39, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Explainable Detection of Sarcasm in Social Media (Akula & Garibay, WASSA 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp22-frontmatter/2021.wassa-1.4.pdf
- Data
- Sarcasm Corpus V2