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Why Sarcasm Is Such a Problem In Artificial Intelligence (thestack.com)
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.
And I'm not just talking about autistic people.
It's so overused now. "Great Job!" has gotten to the point where I don't even say it when I really mean someone did an excellent job. It's gotten the point when someone compliments me, I immediately think I'm being insulted. Instead, regardless of the tone, I play the fool and just say "Thank you." If they think I'm stupid for saying that, well that's their problem and I do not want to associate with people like that.
Sarcasm is a passive aggressive method of expressing disapproval and mostly used as an insult these days. Folks who rely on sarcasm for interpersonal communication are folks who do not know how to communicate very well on that level and have some of their own aggression issues.