{"title":"DWAEF: a deep weighted average ensemble framework harnessing novel indicators for sarcasm detection1","authors":"Richa Sharma, Simrat Deol, Udit Kaushish, Prakher Pandey, Vishal Maurya","doi":"10.3233/ds-220058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/ds-220058","url":null,"abstract":"Sarcasm is a linguistic phenomenon often indicating a disparity between literal and inferred meanings. Due to its complexity, it is typically difficult to discern it within an online text message. Consequently, in recent years sarcasm detection has received considerable attention from both academia and industry. Nevertheless, the majority of current approaches simply model low-level indicators of sarcasm in various machine learning algorithms. This paper aims to present sarcasm in a new light by utilizing novel indicators in a deep weighted average ensemble-based framework (DWAEF). The novel indicators pertain to exploiting the presence of simile and metaphor in text and detecting the subtle shift in tone at a sentence’s structural level. A graph neural network (GNN) structure is implemented to detect the presence of simile, bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) embeddings are exploited to detect metaphorical instances and fuzzy logic is employed to account for the shift of tone. To account for the existence of sarcasm, the DWAEF integrates the inputs from the novel indicators. The performance of the framework is evaluated on a self-curated dataset of online text messages. A comparative report between the results acquired using primitive features and those obtained using a combination of primitive features and proposed indicators is provided. The highest accuracy of 92% was achieved after applying DWAEF, the proposed framework which combines the primitive features and novel indicators together as compared to 78.58% obtained using Support Vector Machine (SVM) which was the lowest among all classifiers.","PeriodicalId":11887,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Data Science","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87742058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPJ Data SciencePub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00410-9
Alexander C. Nwala, A. Flammini, F. Menczer
{"title":"A language framework for modeling social media account behavior","authors":"Alexander C. Nwala, A. Flammini, F. Menczer","doi":"10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00410-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00410-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11887,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Data Science","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47164460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPJ Data SciencePub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00404-7
Kunwoo Park, Jungseock Joo
{"title":"Perceived masculinity from Facebook photographs of candidates predicts electoral success","authors":"Kunwoo Park, Jungseock Joo","doi":"10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00404-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00404-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11887,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Data Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49372888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPJ Data SciencePub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00408-3
A. Dmowska, T. Stepinski
{"title":"Spatio-temporal changes in racial segregation and diversity in large US cities from 1990 to 2020: a visual data analysis","authors":"A. Dmowska, T. Stepinski","doi":"10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00408-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00408-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11887,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Data Science","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49364227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPJ Data SciencePub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00393-7
Joshua Garland, Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, Jean-Gabriel Young, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, M. Galesic
{"title":"Correction: Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online","authors":"Joshua Garland, Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, Jean-Gabriel Young, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, M. Galesic","doi":"10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00393-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00393-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11887,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Data Science","volume":"12 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44515215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPJ Data SciencePub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00405-6
Neeti Pokhriyal, B. Valentino, Soroush Vosoughi
{"title":"Quantifying participation biases on social media","authors":"Neeti Pokhriyal, B. Valentino, Soroush Vosoughi","doi":"10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00405-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00405-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11887,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Data Science","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47482929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPJ Data SciencePub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00402-9
Golshid Ranjbaran, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Gianfranco Lombardo, S. Consoli
{"title":"Leveraging augmentation techniques for tasks with unbalancedness within the financial domain: a two-level ensemble approach","authors":"Golshid Ranjbaran, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Gianfranco Lombardo, S. Consoli","doi":"10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00402-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00402-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11887,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Data Science","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42786250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPJ Data SciencePub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00409-2
Salvatore Citraro, S. Deyne, Massimo Stella, Giulio Rossetti
{"title":"Towards hypergraph cognitive networks as feature-rich models of knowledge","authors":"Salvatore Citraro, S. Deyne, Massimo Stella, Giulio Rossetti","doi":"10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00409-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00409-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11887,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Data Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47177173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPJ Data SciencePub Date : 2023-03-21DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00388-4
Yu-Ru Lin, Shaomei Wu, Winter A. Mason
{"title":"Mapping language literacy at scale: a case study on Facebook","authors":"Yu-Ru Lin, Shaomei Wu, Winter A. Mason","doi":"10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00388-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00388-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11887,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Data Science","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47224636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPJ Data SciencePub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00380-y
Han Zhuang, Tzu-Yang Huang, Daniel Ernesto Acuna
{"title":"A computational analysis of accessibility, readability, and explainability of figures in open access publications","authors":"Han Zhuang, Tzu-Yang Huang, Daniel Ernesto Acuna","doi":"10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00380-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00380-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11887,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Data Science","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41825467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}