When I saw this I thought “how does this to work?” But I could immediately think of a few good uses for my very own Sarcasm Detector. As computers and artificial intelligence continuously improve it stands to reason that this new invention was just waiting to be designed.
“SASI, a Semi-supervised Algorithm for Sarcasm Identification“, can recognize sarcastic sentences in product reviews online with pretty astounding 77% precision. To create such an algorithm, the team scanned 66,000 Amazon.com product reviews, with three different human annotators tagging sentences for sarcasm. The team then identified certain sarcastic patterns that emerged in the reviews and created a classification algorithm that puts each statement into a sarcastic class.”
The SASI was considered one of the best inventions in 2010 but the Simpsons had copped this years ago…