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Why Sarcasm Is Such a Problem In Artificial Intelligence (thestack.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the can-i-interest-you-in-a-sarcastic-comment dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A new paper from researchers in India and Australia, "Automatic Sarcasm Detection: A Survey," highlights one of the strangest and ironically most humorous facets of the problems in machine learning and humour. The paper outlines ten years of research efforts from groups interested in detecting sarcasm in online sources. It details the ways that academia has approached the sarcasm problem, including flagging authors and ring-fencing sarcastic data. However, the report concludes that the solution to the problem is not necessarily one of pattern recognition [PDF], but rather a more sophisticated matrix that has some ability to understand context.

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  1. Solution? by OzPeter · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . but rather a more sophisticated matrix that has some ability to understand context.

    Yeah, right.

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    1. Re:Solution? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 3, Funny

      A.I.?

  2. The last "command" given to the first AI by Daetrin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well why don't you just go take over the world, see if I care!

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  3. Re:Someone mod the parent up by Enigma2175 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dammit, everything posted in this thread has the sarcastic voice in my head. How am I supposed to know what's sincere?

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