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Sarcasm is a non-literalistic expression and presents a negative meaning with positive expressions. Sarcasm detection is a significant challenge for sentiment analysis which is to analyze documents with opinions. In this study, we propose a method of sarcasm detection on Twitter. We focus on two kinds of feature words. One is words modified by the indicator “
”. The other is words expressing a role. First, we extract these words from tweets. Next, our method uses the lists of these words for a machine learning approach to detect sarcastic tweets. The lists of extracted words are used as features in our method. In the experiment, we compare our method with a baseline based on the features in previous studies. The experimental result shows the effectiveness of our method.
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This work was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17H01840.
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Hiai, S., Shimada, K. (2018). Sarcasm Detection Using Features Based on Indicator and Roles. In: Ghazali, R., Deris, M., Nawi, N., Abawajy, J. (eds) Recent Advances on Soft Computing and Data Mining. SCDM 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 700. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72550-5_40
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