Sarcasm Detection: A Contemporary Research Affirmation of Recent Literature

Abstract

Sarcasm identification is a confined research area in NLP, a specific case of opinion mining where the focal point in the process is identification of sarcasm, instead of sentiment extraction. Sarcasm is a specific type of opinion which is expressed as a negative feeling in form of anger, frustration, or derision veiled by the intense positive words in the text. Detection of sarcasm, which is an elusive problem for machines, has gained wide popularity in the research community in recent years. Accurate identification and analysis of sarcasm improves the performance of sentiment identification models. This manuscript details various sarcasm detection approaches, models and features used, issues, challenges, and further research scope. The various machine learning and deep learning models used to identify sarcasm are detailed in this script.