A deep-learning framework to detect sarcasm targets

Abstract

In this paper we propose a deep learning framework for sarcasm target detection in predefined sarcastic texts. Identification of sarcasm targets can help in many core natural language processing tasks such as aspect based sentiment analysis, opinion mining etc. To begin with, we perform an empirical study of the socio-linguistic features and identify those that are statistically significant in indicating sarcasm targets (p-values in the range (0.05, 0.001)). Finally, we present a deep-learning framework augmented with sociolinguistic features to detect sarcasm targets in sarcastic book-snippets and tweets. We achieve a huge improvement in the performance in terms of exact match and dice score as compared to the current state-of-the-art baseline.