System detects, translates sarcasm on social media
"There are a lot of systems designed to identify sarcasm, but this is the first that is able to interpret sarcasm in written text," said Peled. "We hope in the future, it will help people with autism and Asperger's, who have difficulty interpreting sarcasm, irony and humor." Based on machine translation, the new system turns sarcasti c sentences into honest (non-sarcastic) ones. It will, for example, turn a sarcastic sentence such as, "The new 'Fast and Furious' movie is awesome. #sarcasm" into the honest sentence, "The new Fast and Furious movie is terrible." Despite the vast development in this field, and the successes of sentiment analysis applications on "social media intelligence," existing applications do not know how to interpret sarcasm, where the writer writes the opposite of what (s)he actually means. In order to teach the system to produce accurate interpretations, the researchers compiled a database of 3...