stce at SemEval-2022 Task 6: Sarcasm Detection in English Tweets

Mengfei Yuan, Zhou Mengyuan, Lianxin Jiang, Yang Mo, Xiaofeng Shi


Abstract
This paper describes the systematic approach applied in “SemEval-2022 Task 6 (iSarcasmEval) : Intended Sarcasm Detection in English and Arabic”. In particular, we illustrate the proposed system in detail for SubTask-A about determining a given text as sarcastic or non-sarcastic in English. We start with the training data from the officially released data and then experiment with different combinations of public datasets to improve the model generalization. Additional experiments conducted on the task demonstrate our strategies are effective in completing the task. Different transformer-based language models, as well as some popular plug-and-play proirs, are mixed into our system to enhance the model’s robustness. Furthermore, statistical and lexical-based text features are mined to improve the accuracy of the sarcasm detection. Our final submission achieves an F1-score for the sarcastic class of 0.6052 on the official test set (the top 1 of the 43 teams in “SubTask-A-English” on the leaderboard).
Anthology ID:
2022.semeval-1.113
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, United States
Editors:
Guy Emerson, Natalie Schluter, Gabriel Stanovsky, Ritesh Kumar, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
820–826
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.113
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.113
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Cite (ACL):
Mengfei Yuan, Zhou Mengyuan, Lianxin Jiang, Yang Mo, and Xiaofeng Shi. 2022. stce at SemEval-2022 Task 6: Sarcasm Detection in English Tweets. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), pages 820–826, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
stce at SemEval-2022 Task 6: Sarcasm Detection in English Tweets (Yuan et al., SemEval 2022)
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https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/2022.semeval-1.113.pdf
Data
iSarcasmiSarcasmEval