Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue

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The use of irony and sarcasm in social media allows us to study them at scale for the first time.

• However, their diversity has made it difficult to construct a high-quality corpus of sarcasm in dialogue.
• Here, we describe the process of creating a large- scale, highly-diverse corpus of online debate forums dialogue, and our novel methods for operationalizing classes of sarcasm in the form of rhetorical questions and hyperbole.
• We show that we can use lexico-syntactic cues to reliably retrieve sarcastic utterances with high accuracy.