Alberto Bustamante

Automatic recognition of sarcasm

Posted by Alberto - 21/05/10 at 09:05:57 pm

When I read about an automatic sarcasm recognition algorithm, I wanted to know more about it. Sarcasm is not always easy to identify by human beings so… what about a computer? “Semi-supervised recognition of sarcastic sentences in Twitter and Amazon” describes the work done in The Hebrew University testing their SASI algorithm with data extracted from Twitter and Amazon. Although they obtained good results, there is still a lot of work to do in this field (as I expected before reading this article). I found interesting the way they model the problem, and the fact that they obtained better results classifying tweets instead of classifying Amazon data (more structured).

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