Representing Social Media Users for Sarcasm Detection

Y. Alex Kolchinski, Christopher Potts


Abstract
We explore two methods for representing authors in the context of textual sarcasm detection: a Bayesian approach that directly represents authors’ propensities to be sarcastic, and a dense embedding approach that can learn interactions between the author and the text. Using the SARC dataset of Reddit comments, we show that augmenting a bidirectional RNN with these representations improves performance; the Bayesian approach suffices in homogeneous contexts, whereas the added power of the dense embeddings proves valuable in more diverse ones.
Anthology ID:
D18-1140
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
October-November
Year:
2018
Address:
Brussels, Belgium
Editors:
Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
Venue:
EMNLP
SIG:
SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
1115–1121
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D18-1140
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D18-1140
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Cite (ACL):
Y. Alex Kolchinski and Christopher Potts. 2018. Representing Social Media Users for Sarcasm Detection. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1115–1121, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Representing Social Media Users for Sarcasm Detection (Kolchinski & Potts, EMNLP 2018)
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Code
 kolchinski/reddit-sarc
Data
SARC