@inproceedings{lotfy-etal-2022-alexu,
    title = "{A}lex{U}-{AL} at {S}em{E}val-2022 Task 6: Detecting Sarcasm in {A}rabic Text Using Deep Learning Techniques",
    author = "Lotfy, Aya  and
      Torki, Marwan  and
      El-Makky, Nagwa",
    editor = "Emerson, Guy  and
      Schluter, Natalie  and
      Stanovsky, Gabriel  and
      Kumar, Ritesh  and
      Palmer, Alexis  and
      Schneider, Nathan  and
      Singh, Siddharth  and
      Ratan, Shyam",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Seattle, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2022.semeval-1.125/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.125",
    pages = "891--895",
    abstract = "Sarcasm detection is an important task in Natural Language Understanding. Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony that occurs when there is a discrepancy between the literal and intended meanings of an expression. In this paper, we use the tweets of the Arabic dataset provided by SemEval-2022 task 6 to train deep learning classifiers to solve the sub-tasks A and C associated with the dataset. Sub-task A is to determine if the tweet is sarcastic or not. For sub-task C, given a sarcastic text and its non-sarcastic rephrase, i.e. two texts that convey the same meaning, determine which is the sarcastic one. In our solution, we utilize fine-tuned MARBERT (Abdul-Mageed et al., 2021) model with an added single linear layer on top for classification. The proposed solution achieved 0.5076 F1-sarcastic in Arabic sub-task A, accuracy of 0.7450 and F-score of 0.7442 in Arabic sub-task C. We achieved the $2^{nd}$ and the $9^{th}$ places for Arabic sub-tasks A and C respectively."
}