Experimenting with a dataset of approximately 1.6M user comments from a Greek news sports portal, we explore how a state of the art RNN-based moderation method can be improved by adding user embeddings, user type embeddings, user biases, or user type biases. We observe improvements in all cases, with user embeddings leading to the biggest performance gains.
detect sarcasm in tweets. Their best system uses a word-based Convolutional Neural Network ( ). The feature vector produced by the (representing the content of the tweet) is concatenated with the user embedding of the author, and passed on to an that classifies the tweet as sarcastic or not. This method outperforms a previous state of the art sarcasm detection method @cite_4 that relies on an classifier with hand-crafted content and user-specific features. We use an instead of a , and we feed the comment and user embeddings to a simpler layer (Eq. ), instead of an . discard unknown users, unlike our experiments, and consider only sarcasm, whereas moderation also involves profanity, hate speech, bullying, threats etc.
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Sarcasm understanding may require information beyond the text itself, as in the case of ‘I absolutely love this restaurant!’ which may be sarcastic, depending on the contextual situation. We present the first quantitative evidence to show that historical tweets by an author can provide additional context for sarcasm detection. Our sarcasm detection approach uses two components: a contrast-based predictor (that identifies if there is a sentiment contrast within a target tweet), and a historical tweet-based predictor (that identifies if the sentiment expressed towards an entity in the target tweet agrees with sentiment expressed by the author towards that entity in the past). Sarcasm can radically alter or invert a phrase’s meaning. Sarcasm detection can therefore help improve natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The majority of prior research has modeled sarcasm detection as classification, with two important limitations: 1. Balanced datasets, when sarcasm is actually rather rare. 2. Using Twitter users’ self-declarations in the form of hashtags to label data, when sarcasm can take many forms. To address these issues, we create an unbalanced corpus of manually annotated Twitter conversations. We compare human and machine ability to recognize sarcasm on this data under varying amounts of context. Our results indicate that both class imbalance and labelling method affect performance, and should both be considered when designing automatic sarcasm detection systems. We conclude that for progress to be made in real-world sarcasm detection, we will require a new class labelling scheme that is able to access the ‘common ground’ held between conversational parties. The literature in automated sarcasm detection has mainly focused on lexical, syntactic and semantic-level analysis of text. However, a sarcastic sentence can be expressed with contextual presumptions, background and commonsense knowledge. In this paper, we propose CASCADE (a ContextuAl SarCasm DEtector) that adopts a hybrid approach of both content and context-driven modeling for sarcasm detection in online social media discussions. For the latter, CASCADE aims at extracting contextual information from the discourse of a discussion thread. Also, since the sarcastic nature and form of expression can vary from person to person, CASCADE utilizes user embeddings that encode stylometric and personality features of the users. When used along with content-based feature extractors such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), we see a significant boost in the classification performance on a large Reddit corpus. Sarcasm requires some shared knowledge between speaker and audience; it is a profoundly contextual phenomenon. Most computational approaches to sarcasm detection, however, treat it as a purely linguistic matter, using information such as lexical cues and their corresponding sentiment as predictive features. We show that by including extra-linguistic information from the context of an utterance on Twitter — such as properties of the author, the audience and the immediate communicative environment — we are able to achieve gains in accuracy compared to purely linguistic features in the detection of this complex phenomenon, while also shedding light on features of interpersonal interaction that enable sarcasm in conversation.