Expect the unexpected: Harnessing Sentence Completion for Sarcasm Detection
TABLE II: Results of our approach for dataset of discussion forum posts by Walker et al (2012), compared with best reported value on the same dataset
['Joshi et al. (2015)', '[EMPTY]', '[BOLD] P 48.9', '[BOLD] R 92.4', '[BOLD] F 64']
Note that similar trends are observed for other cases as well. Also, unlike the tweets, the Incongruous words-only approach results in a degradation as compared to all-words approach, for discussion forum posts. This shows that while our approach works for short text (tweets), it does not work for long text (discussion forum posts). This is because the average length of discussion forum posts is higher than that of tweets. As a result, the all-words approach or even Incongruous words-only approach may introduce similarity comparison with irrelevant words (‘man’ and ‘woman’ in the example in Section 3).