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Software Recognizes Sarcastic Tweets
An anonymous reader writes "Even humans sometimes fail to recognize sarcasm and irony; can machines do better? An algorithm that identifies sarcastic tweets (PDF) on Twitter and sarcastic sentences in product reviews on Amazon will be presented next week in the International Conference for Weblogs and Social Media in Washington, DC, and in the Computational Natural Language Learning in Sweden in July. A team from the Hebrew University, Israel, has developed an algorithm that identifies sarcastic sentences by using a machine learning technique in which a small number of sarcastic sentences act as seeds for the software to learn and generalize upon. The algorithm can then identify sarcastic sentences that are nothing like the examples. The variety of recognized sarcastic sentences is impressive, though the results are not perfect. But again, we don't do it so well ourselves, do we?"
Yeah, sure it does.
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A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention!
"Yeah, we totally developed a program to detect sarcastic tweets... #fuckinggenius"
Just end your sarcasm tags before being sarcastic. This won't conform to W3C standards, however.
"Hegelians, who love a synthesis, will probably conclude that he wears a wig." - Bertrand Russell
Given that sometimes not even humans understand when I am being sarcastic, I expect this software will have an exceptionally high recognition rate with very low false positives. A truly remarkable achievement and the one algorithm the human race has been waiting for!
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
You don't have to be sarcastic, they might really find this useful.
Yeah, like that would work!
-- Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong. - Dire Straits
The algorithm can then identify sarcastic sentences that are nothing like the examples.
Place it in my office. If it still responds at the end of the week, it's not working correctly. If it's overloaded and partially melted, we've got a winner.
I'd have though that even autistics would be able to recognize horns, goat legs, and a pan pipe? Oh, satire.
I wonder what would happen if you applied their algorithm to any given slashdot post, particularly one on the Apple board.
-- Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong. - Dire Straits
It dates back into some of the great classic works of our time... upon reading Romeo and Juliet one critic was overheard saying:
"Nice play Shakespeare..."
or upon solving a great mystery, Watson was once overheard saying, "No shit Sherlock."
I bet it just looks for itallic text.
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Like the fair, independent, open-minded, thoughtful people that you know they are.
Dude. He was being sarcastic.
Their algorithm gets 77% accuracy. I think I can do better:
# Estimated accuracy: 92.1%
isSarcastic(tweet) { return true; }
Or does that only work for slashdot comments?
Oh Great, my Sarcasm Meter and my Bullshit Detector both exploded and now my UPS is on fi
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