Sarcasm

[Cory_K]

Apparently programmers at a Hebrew University just created an algorithm to determine if a statement is sarcastic, with 77% precision.

That is a huge leap in artificial intelligence... pretty neat 

[altenbach]

That's pretty good. My current algorithm was only 50% accurate. 😄

[tst]

On his blog (called Science Friction, but it's in Hebrew, so I wouldn't bother searching for it) he said that they also did work on detecting irony and that a good example of irony is that they had few samples of good data to work with, but after the research was covered online, a lot of people posted sarcastic comments saying "oh yeah, well see if you can identify this...", thus providing a lot of data once it's no longer needed.

[Cory_K]

Haha computers are already difficult enough when they decide to be fickle (we've all had those days),
now we have to worry about them being smart asses  

[PhillipBrooks]

Well, THAT must have been EASY 😉

[PaulG.]

Yea, right.

[Norbert_B]

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altenbach wrote:
That's pretty good. My current algorithm was only 50% accurate. 😄

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Throwing a coin? 😉

[Ben]

Sarcastic comment deleted.

Ben

Message Edited by Ben on 06-09-2010 09:41 AM

[Broken_Arrow]

Sarcasm is so much harder to detect in written form, so I can see why a computer would have a hard time with it. What looks like a negative or derogatory statement in print may have been intended to be sarcastic, but without body language, tone, intonation, etc, it just doesn't work. Emoticons help a little.

[James_W]

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Norbert B wrote:

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altenbach wrote:
That's pretty good. My current algorithm was only 50% accurate. 😄

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Throwing a coin? 😉

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I'm surprised at you Norbert. I thought you were more educated than that. A coin has a different mass of metal on each face so flip it enough times and you will find that it is not a 50% chance of getting one particular face.

Statistically (in the UK at least if I'm rememering correctly) the odds are slightly higher of "tails" than "heads" due to the slight increase in the mass of metal used!

James