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Representing Social Media Users for Sarcasm Detection

25 Aug 2018EMNLP 2018 10arXiv:1808.08470archive 2025-07-28

Y. Alex Kolchinski, Christopher Potts

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.

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