A Dual-Channel Framework for Sarcasm Recognition by Detecting Sentiment Conflict
Yiyi Liu, Yequan Wang, Aixin Sun, Xuying Meng, Jing Li, Jiafeng Guo
Abstract
Sarcasm employs ambivalence, where one says something positive but actually means negative, and vice versa. The essence of sarcasm, which is also a sufficient and necessary condition, is the conflict between literal and implied sentiments expressed in one sentence. However, it is difficult to recognize such sentiment conflict because the sentiments are mixed or even implicit. As a result, the recognition of sophisticated and obscure sentiment brings in a great challenge to sarcasm detection. In this paper, we propose a Dual-Channel Framework by modeling both literal and implied sentiments separately. Based on this dual-channel framework, we design the Dual-Channel Network (DC-Net) to recognize sentiment conflict. Experiments on political debates (i.e. IAC-V1 and IAC-V2) and Twitter datasets show that our proposed DC-Net achieves state-of-the-art performance on sarcasm recognition. Our code is released to support research.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.findings-naacl.126
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Seattle, United States
- Editors:
- Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1670–1680
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.126
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.126
- Cite (ACL):
- Yiyi Liu, Yequan Wang, Aixin Sun, Xuying Meng, Jing Li, and Jiafeng Guo. 2022. A Dual-Channel Framework for Sarcasm Recognition by Detecting Sentiment Conflict. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, pages 1670–1680, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Dual-Channel Framework for Sarcasm Recognition by Detecting Sentiment Conflict (Liu et al., Findings 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2022.findings-naacl.126.pdf
- Code
- yiyi-ict/dual-channel-for-sarcasm
- Data
- SARC