Reactive Supervision: A New Method for Collecting Sarcasm Data

Boaz Shmueli, Lun-Wei Ku, Soumya Ray


Abstract
Sarcasm detection is an important task in affective computing, requiring large amounts of labeled data. We introduce reactive supervision, a novel data collection method that utilizes the dynamics of online conversations to overcome the limitations of existing data collection techniques. We use the new method to create and release a first-of-its-kind large dataset of tweets with sarcasm perspective labels and new contextual features. The dataset is expected to advance sarcasm detection research. Our method can be adapted to other affective computing domains, thus opening up new research opportunities.
Anthology ID:
2020.emnlp-main.201
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Month:
November
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
Venue:
EMNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2553–2559
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.201
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.201
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Cite (ACL):
Boaz Shmueli, Lun-Wei Ku, and Soumya Ray. 2020. Reactive Supervision: A New Method for Collecting Sarcasm Data. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 2553–2559, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Reactive Supervision: A New Method for Collecting Sarcasm Data (Shmueli et al., EMNLP 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.201.pdf
Video:
 https://slideslive.com/38938693
Code
 bshmueli/SPIRS
Data
SPIRS