# Effectiveness of Data-Driven Induction of Semantic Spaces and Traditional Classifiers for Sarcasm Detection

## TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that classical machine learning algorithms applied to semantic space representations can effectively detect sarcasm, establishing benchmark datasets and baselines for future research in this challenging NLP task.

## Contribution

It introduces a data-driven approach using semantic spaces and classical classifiers for sarcasm detection, providing standardized datasets and baselines for the community.

## Key findings

- Classical ML algorithms perform well on sarcasm detection tasks.
- Semantic space representations improve detection accuracy.
- Established reference datasets for benchmarking.

## Abstract

Irony and sarcasm are two complex linguistic phenomena that are widely used in everyday language and especially over the social media, but they represent two serious issues for automated text understanding. Many labeled corpora have been extracted from several sources to accomplish this task, and it seems that sarcasm is conveyed in different ways for different domains. Nonetheless, very little work has been done for comparing different methods among the available corpora. Furthermore, usually, each author collects and uses their own datasets to evaluate his own method. In this paper, we show that sarcasm detection can be tackled by applying classical machine learning algorithms to input texts sub-symbolically represented in a Latent Semantic space. The main consequence is that our studies establish both reference datasets and baselines for the sarcasm detection problem that could serve the scientific community to test newly proposed methods.