17/09/2017
We are glad to share our Tutorial on Computation Sarcasm at EMNLP 2017 which was presented by Aditya Joshi. The details an link of the slides are below.
Computational Sarcasm: EMNLP 2017 Tutorial
7th September 2017, Spisenhuset, DGI-Byen, 9:00-12:30.
Link on EMNLP Website: http://emnlp2017.net/tutorials/day1/0/sarcasm.html
Abstract
Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony that is intended to express contempt or ridicule. Motivated by challenges posed by sarcastic text to sentiment analysis, computational approaches to sarcasm have witnessed a growing interest at NLP forums in the past decade. Computational sarcasm refers to automatic approaches pertaining to sarcasm. The tutorial will provide a bird’s-eye view of the research in computational sarcasm for text, while focusing on significant milestones.
The tutorial begins with linguistic theories of sarcasm, with a focus on incongruity: a useful notion that underlies sarcasm and other forms of figurative language. Since the most significant work in computational sarcasm is sarcasm detection: predicting whether a given piece of text is sarcastic or not, sarcasm detection forms the focus hereafter. We begin our discussion on sarcasm detection with datasets, touching on strategies, challenges and nature of datasets. Then, we describe algorithms for sarcasm detection: rule-based (where a specific evidence of sarcasm is utilised as a rule), statistical classifier-based (where features are designed for a statistical classifier), a topic model-based technique, and deep learning-based algorithms for sarcasm detection. In case of each of these algorithms, we refer to our work on sarcasm detection and share our learnings. Since information beyond the text to be classified, contextual information is useful for sarcasm detection, we then describe approaches that use such information through conversational context or author-specific context.
We then follow it by novel areas in computational sarcasm such as sarcasm generation, sarcasm v/s irony classification, etc. We then summarise the tutorial and describe future directions based on errors reported in past work. The tutorial will end with a demonstration of our work on sarcasm detection.
This tutorial will be of interest to researchers investigating computational sarcasm and related areas such as computational humour, figurative language understanding, emotion and sentiment sentiment analysis, etc. The tutorial is motivated by our continually evolving survey paper of sarcasm detection, that is available on arXiv at: Joshi, Aditya, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, and Mark James Carman. “Automatic Sarcasm Detection: A Survey.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03426 (2016). The paper has been selected for publication in ACM Computing Surveys in Issue 50 in 2017. That will be the most recent version of the paper.
The slides are here:http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/tutorial-computational-sarcasm.pdf
--Speaker Profiles--
Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India & Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India.
[email protected], [email protected]
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pb/
Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya is the current President of ACL (2016-17). He is the Director of IIT Patna and Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor in IIT Bombay, Computer Science and Engineering Department. He was educated in IIT Kharagpur (B.Tech), IIT Kanpur (M.Tech) and IIT Bombay (PhD). He has been visiting scholar and faculty in MIT, Stanford, UT Houston and University Joseph Fouriere (France). Prof. Bhattacharyya’s research areas are Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and AI. He has guided more than 250 students (PhD, masters and Bachelors), has published more than 250 research papers and led government and industry projects of international and national importance. A significant contribution of his is Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Bases and Projection. Author of the text book ‘Machine Translation’ Prof. Bhattacharyya is loved by his students for his inspiring teaching and mentorship. He is a Fellow of National Academy of Engineering and recipient of Patwardhan Award of IIT Bombay and VNMM award of IIT Roorkey- both for technology development, and faculty grants of IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and United Nations.
Aditya Joshi
IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai, India.
[email protected], [email protected]
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~adityaj/
Aditya Joshi is a PhD student at IITB-Monash Research Academy, a joint PhD programme between Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia, since January 2013. His PhD advisors are Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IITB) and Mark Carman (Monash). His primary research focus is computational sarcasm where he has explored different ways in which incongruity can be captured in order to detect and generate sarcasm. In addition, he has worked on innovative applications of NLP such as sentiment analysis for Indian languages, drunk-texting prediction, news headline translation, political issue extraction, etc.
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