406697

A MEMORY-EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR SARCASM DETECTION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

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Last updated: 01 Feb 2025

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Sarcasm detection in social media has become a crucial task in natural language processing (NLP), where social media has become a fundamental aspect of communication, enabling billions of users to interact, share information, and express opinions. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have transformed how news and entertainment are consumed, often replacing traditional media outlets. Unlike traditional sentiment analysis, sarcasm detection requires understanding the deeper context behind a statement, as the literal meaning often contrasts with the intended sentiment. This complexity is compounded by the lack of facial expressions or vocal cues, which typically aid in detecting sarcasm in face-to-face conversations. As a result, accurately identifying sarcastic content on social media demands sophisticated models that can account for both contextual and emotional subtleties within conversations. In this work, we propose an enhanced approach for sarcasm detection that combines both conversational context and emotional cues. Our method extracts emotions from the main post and each comment surrounding a response tweet, summarizes the conversation to reduce the context size while preserving key information, and incorporates both the response and the summarized, emotion-rich context into a RoBERTa-based model for classification. We evaluate our approach on a Twitter dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach, which combines summarized context and emotional cues, achieves an F1-score of 0.8374, outperforming models that use only the response or rely solely on summarized context. Furthermore, our approach significantly reduces the data size by 41%, leading to less memory usage, addressing computational challenges posed by large conversational contexts.

DOI

10.21608/ijicis.2024.332007.1360

Keywords

sarcasm detection, social media, emotion, Conversation Summary, context

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abdelgawad

MiddleName

Hassan

Affiliation

Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University

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ahmed.hassan@cis.asu.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0009-0009-6625-1172

First Name

Nivin

Last Name

Helal

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Information Systems, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University

Email

nivin.atef@cis.asu.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-2269-7262

First Name

Yasmine

Last Name

Afify

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Information Systems, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University

Email

yasmine.afify@cis.asu.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-6400-8472

First Name

Nagwa

Last Name

Badr

MiddleName

L.

Affiliation

Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, 11566, Egypt

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nagwabadr@cis.asu.edu.eg

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-

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0000-0002-5382-1385

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24

Article Issue

4

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52576

Issue Date

2024-12-01

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2024-10-28

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2024-12-01

Page Start

32

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42

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1687-109X

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2535-1710

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494

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International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Information Sciences

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A MEMORY-EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR SARCASM DETECTION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

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01 Feb 2025