U.S. Secret Service Requests Software to "Detect Sarcasm" on Twitter

[Vrach]

I'm just gonna leave this here:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/06/we-need-a-pony-and-the-moon-on.html

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Yeah ok, good luck with that. And in case your sarcasm detector isn't working, that was sarcasm.

 

[AdamG3691]

There is a punctuation mark used for sarcasm, it's called the Irony punctuation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation). Now if people would just use it, that'd be perfect.

But what's preventing someone from using the punctuation itself sarcastically?

It seems like succcchhh a useful symbol.

(Heh)

oh god, now we're getting into dave strider levels of irony, soon we'll be talking about using it ironically, but being totally serious, but what youre actually being iroically serious about is your commitment to ironically using it seriously for the purposes of irony.

the metairony knows no bounds :O

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Well I'd make a sarcastic reply to this... but I'm WAY too much of a trendsetter to do that.

Anyway, what self-respecting terrorist would use Twitter?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Well I'd make a sarcastic reply to this... but I'm WAY too much of a trendsetter to do that.

Anyway, what self-respecting terrorist would use Twitter?

Considering we've had moronic criminals that have boasted about their crimes on Facebook, I wouldn't be surprised if there are idiot Terrorists that use Twatter.

 

[Strazdas]

good luck with that. Humans seems to be incapable of detecting sarcasm over 90% of the time, and they want software to do that.

There is a punctuation mark used for sarcasm, it's called the Irony punctuation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation). Now if people would just use it, that'd be perfect.

Ironically, my browser fails to load that pinctuation and tells me its unrecognized symbol. so if our browsers cant even see it, let alone type it out, how the hell you expect a random 12 year old posting on twitter app in phone to use it?

There's a Dutch group [http://repository.ubn.ru.nl//handle/2066/112949] that got a 75% success rate at identifying sarcastic text on Twitter, so there's definitely something to it.

ok so i went in searching for the methodology and read too much. Either way, the methodology is flawed to begin with. since humans are incapable of differentiating sarcasm most of the time, there is no control group to see if results are actually correct. And #sarcasme tag does not work as a control, since people posting this tag may also not differentiate sarcasm. the whole experiment was flawed due to no way of measuring results that would be meaningful.

 

[zidine100]

You would have to solve the human computer language problem and the common sense problem, to detect sarcasm the program would have to be able to accurately understand the language it is spoken in and that well.... all i can say to that is Good luck, your going to have to create a entire smart ai program to even get close to that no database of sarcastic quotes is going to cut it. Guessing that the person who requested this has no coding experience whatsoever .

 

[FalloutJack]

This is an open message to the Secret Service.

Fellas, even if you do that, they'll just go uber-sarcastic to mess with ya. It won't work!

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Well I'd make a sarcastic reply to this... but I'm WAY too much of a trendsetter to do that.

Anyway, what self-respecting terrorist would use Twitter?

Considering we've had moronic criminals that have boasted about their crimes on Facebook, I wouldn't be surprised if there are idiot Terrorists that use Twatter.

That... is actually a very good point.

Nobody has any standards any more, mumpf...

 

[Flammablezeus]

Well unfortunately for the secret service, every time we try to build a sarcasm detector it explodes because of there being too much sarcasm detected.

*sigh*
Remember when the Secret Service tried to be secret about spying on it's citizens. (let's face it, they always have been doing it anyway)

I clicked on this topic just to make sure that that Simpsons clip was in the first reply. Thank goodness.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Well I'd make a sarcastic reply to this... but I'm WAY too much of a trendsetter to do that.

Anyway, what self-respecting terrorist would use Twitter?

Considering we've had moronic criminals that have boasted about their crimes on Facebook, I wouldn't be surprised if there are idiot Terrorists that use Twatter.

That... is actually a very good point.

Nobody has any standards any more, mumpf...

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.