Past studies in Sarcasm Detection mostly make use of Twitter datasets collected using hashtag based supervision but such datasets are noisy in terms of labels and language. Furthermore, many tweets are replies to other tweets and detecting sarcasm in these requires the availability of contextual tweets.In this hands-on project, the goal is to build a model to detect whether a sentence is sarcastic or not, using Bidirectional LSTMs.
The dataset is collected from two news websites, theonion.com and huffingtonpost.com.
This new dataset has the following advantages over the existing Twitter datasets:
Since news headlines are written by professionals in a formal manner, there are no spelling mistakes and informal usage. This reduces
the sparsity and also increases the chance of finding pre-trained embeddings.
Furthermore, since the sole purpose of TheOnion is to publish sarcastic news, we get high-quality labels with much less noise as
compared to Twitter datasets.
Unlike tweets that reply to other tweets, the news headlines obtained are self-contained. This would help us in teasing apart the real
sarcastic elements
Content: Each record consists of three attributes:
is_sarcastic: 1 if the record is sarcastic otherwise 0
headline: the headline of the news article
article_link: link to the original news article. Useful in collecting supplementary data
Reference: https://github.com/rishabhmisra/News-Headlines-Dataset-For-Sarcasm-Detection
Build a sequential NLP classifier which can use input text parameters to determine the customer sentiments.