Re:How Vector Space Mathematics Helps Machines Spot Sarcasm
by webmaven on Saturday October 15, 2016 @07:18PM
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This seems like a good match of methodology to the problem.
Sarcasm seems rather adversarial by nature: the goal in delivery is often to signal, with intonation, only just enough to disambiguate intent. In highly competitive environments this results in deadpan delivery being common or even the default, and sarcasm having to be inferred entirely from content & context.
(consider the opposite: delivery with an exaggerated sarcastic tone: It's actually insulting and rude regardless of the content.)
People who haven't been exposed to such high sarcasm environments rely much more strongly on intonation, and correspondingly find it relatively difficult to identify sarcasm in text (again, this matches well with GAN failure modes).
OTOH, I have personally been inadvertently fooled the opposite way, listening to a speaker with growing joy at his elaborate windup of the surrounding audience in a social setting, only to realize "holy shit, this guy is actually seriously a neo-nazi advocating eugenics. Back away slowly."
Sarcasm seems rather adversarial by nature: the goal in delivery is often to signal, with intonation, only just enough to disambiguate intent. In highly competitive environments this results in deadpan delivery being common or even the default, and sarcasm having to be inferred entirely from content & context.
(consider the opposite: delivery with an exaggerated sarcastic tone: It's actually insulting and rude regardless of the content.)
People who haven't been exposed to such high sarcasm environments rely much more strongly on intonation, and correspondingly find it relatively difficult to identify sarcasm in text (again, this matches well with GAN failure modes).
OTOH, I have personally been inadvertently fooled the opposite way, listening to a speaker with growing joy at his elaborate windup of the surrounding audience in a social setting, only to realize "holy shit, this guy is actually seriously a neo-nazi advocating eugenics. Back away slowly."