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8:28 am Sat
Aug 25, 2018
Yeah, right. Sarcasm Analysis using Conversation Context. Whatever, Ghosh et al.
Focusing on social media discussions, we investigate three issues: (1) does modeling conversation context help in sarcasm detection; (2) can we identify what part of conversation context triggered the sarcastic reply; and (3) given a sarcastic post that contains multiple sentences, can we identify the specific sentence that is sarcastic.
I'm sure it works. No, really. Every time.
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