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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN? by roryisok on Saturday June 10, 2017 @08:51AM (#14527140)
> 3. Learn to recognize sarcasm in short, written text.

No need. This is HN. Someone's bound to have used machine learning to crack this already.

Re:Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN? by mbrock on Sunday June 11, 2017 @06:50AM (#14531495)
Duh, haven't you read "Automatic Sarcasm Detection: A Survey" by Joshi, Bhattacharyya and Carman?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03426

Re:Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN? by fho on Monday June 12, 2017 @09:43AM (#14537281)
And for a second there I thought that you just made that up :-)
Re:Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN? by thenomad on Sunday June 11, 2017 @06:37AM (#14531463)
What we need now is a text-to-speech engine programmed with The Mary Whitehouse Experience's "Man With A Sarcastic Tone Of Voice".