What A Sunny Day ☔: Toward Emoji-Sensitive Irony Detection

Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Aditi Chaudhary, Naoki Otani, Alan W Black


Abstract
Irony detection is an important task with applications in identification of online abuse and harassment. With the ubiquitous use of non-verbal cues such as emojis in social media, in this work we aim to study the role of these structures in irony detection. Since the existing irony detection datasets have <10% ironic tweets with emoji, classifiers trained on them are insensitive to emojis. We propose an automated pipeline for creating a more balanced dataset.
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D19-5527
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Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019)
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November
Year:
2019
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Hong Kong, China
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Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Tim Baldwin, Afshin Rahimi
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WNUT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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212–216
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-5527
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-5527
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Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Aditi Chaudhary, Naoki Otani, and Alan W Black. 2019. What A Sunny Day ☔: Toward Emoji-Sensitive Irony Detection. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019), pages 212–216, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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What A Sunny Day ☔: Toward Emoji-Sensitive Irony Detection (Hayati et al., WNUT 2019)
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