Xiaochang Gong


2020

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The Design and Construction of a Chinese Sarcasm Dataset
Xiaochang Gong | Qin Zhao | Jun Zhang | Ruibin Mao | Ruifeng Xu
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

As a typical multi-layered semi-conscious language phenomenon, sarcasm is widely existed in social media text for enhancing the emotion expression. Thus, the detection and processing of sarcasm is important to social media analysis. However, most existing sarcasm dataset are in English and there is still a lack of authoritative Chinese sarcasm dataset. In this paper, we presents the design and construction of a largest high-quality Chinese sarcasm dataset, which contains 2,486 manual annotated sarcastic texts and 89,296 non-sarcastic texts. Furthermore, a balanced dataset through elaborately sampling the same amount non-sarcastic texts for training sarcasm classifier. Using the dataset as the benchmark, some sarcasm classification methods are evaluated.