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Reactive Supervision: A New Method for Collecting Sarcasm Data

28 Sep 2020EMNLP 2020 11arXiv:2009.13080archive 2025-07-28

Boaz Shmueli, Lun-Wei Ku, Soumya Ray

Sarcasm detection is an important task in affective computing, requiring large amounts of labeled data. We introduce reactive supervision, a novel data collection method that utilizes the dynamics of online conversations to overcome the limitations of existing data collection techniques. We use the new method to create and release a first-of-its-kind large dataset of tweets with sarcasm perspective labels and new contextual features. The dataset is expected to advance sarcasm detection research. Our method can be adapted to other affective computing domains, thus opening up new research opportunities.

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