Identification of Sarcasm in Textual Data:A Comparative Study

• 作者: Devpriya Soni Pulkit Mehndiratta
• 来源期刊: 数据与情报科学学报:英文版
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: Machine learning Artificial NEURAL networks Word EMBEDDING TEXT VECTORIZATION ACCURACY
• 年，卷（期）: sjyqbkxxbywb_2019,（4）
• 页码范围: 56-83
• 页数: 28页
• 分类号: TP3

摘要

Purpose:Ever increasing penetration of the Internet in our lives has led to an enormous amount of multimedia content generation on the internet.Textual data contributes a major share towards data generated on the world wide web.Understanding people’s sentiment is an important aspect of natural language processing,but this opinion can be biased and incorrect,if people use sarcasm while commenting,posting status updates or reviewing any product or a movie.Thus,it is of utmost importance to detect sarcasm correctly and make a correct prediction about the people’s intentions.Design/methodology/approach:This study tries to evaluate various machine learning models along with standard and hybrid deep learning models across various standardized datasets.We have performed vectorization of text using word embedding techniques.This has been done to convert the textual data into vectors for analytical purposes.We have used three standardized datasets available in public domain and used three word embeddings i.e Word2Vec,GloVe and fastText to validate the hypothesis.Findings:The results were analyzed and conclusions are drawn.The key finding is:the hybrid models that include Bidirectional LongTerm Short Memory(Bi-LSTM)and Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)outperform others conventional machine learning as well as deep learning models across all the datasets considered in this study,making our hypothesis valid.Research limitations:Using the data from different sources and customizing the models according to each dataset,slightly decreases the usability of the technique.But,overall this methodology provides effective measures to identify the presence of sarcasm with a minimum average accuracy of 80%or above for one dataset and better than the current baseline results for the other datasets.Practical implications:The results provide solid insights for the system developers to integrate this model into real-time analysis of any review or comment posted in the public domain.This study has various other practical implications fo