Sarcasm Detection over Social Media Platforms Using Hybrid Auto-Encoder-Based Model

Abstract

Sarcasm is a language phrase that conveys the polar opposite of what is being said, generally something highly unpleasant to offend or mock somebody. Sarcasm is widely used on social media platforms every day. Because sarcasm may change the meaning of a statement, the opinion analysis procedure is prone to errors. Concerns about the integrity of analytics have grown as the usage of automated social media analysis tools has expanded. According to preliminary research, sarcastic statements alone have significantly reduced the accuracy of automatic sentiment analysis. Sarcastic phrases also impact automatic fake news detection leading to false positives. Various individual natural language processing techniques have been proposed earlier, but each has textual context and proximity limitations. They cannot handle diverse content types. In this research paper, we propose a novel hybrid sentence embedding-based technique using an autoencoder. The framework proposes using sentence embedding from long short term memory-autoencoder, bidirectional encoder representation transformer, and universal sentence encoder. The text over images is also considered to handle multimedia content such as images and videos. The final framework is designed after the ablation study of various hybrid fusions of models. The proposed model is verified on three diverse real-world social media datasets—Self-Annotated Reddit Corpus (SARC), headlines dataset, and Twitter dataset. The accuracy of 83.92%, 90.8%, and 92.80% is achieved. The accuracy metric values are better than previous state-of-art frameworks.