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R3: Reverse, Retrieve, and Rank for Sarcasm Generation with Commonsense Knowledge

arXiv 2004.13248 ↗First posted 28 Apr 2020cs.CL cs.AI cs.LGcited by 32

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Abstract (arXiv)

We propose an unsupervised approach for sarcasm generation based on a non-sarcastic input sentence. Our method employs a retrieve-and-edit framework to instantiate two major characteristics of sarcasm: reversal of valence and semantic incongruity with the context which could include shared commonsense or world knowledge between the speaker and the listener. While prior works on sarcasm generation predominantly focus on context incongruity, we show that combining valence reversal and semantic incongruity based on the commonsense knowledge generates sarcasm of higher quality. Human evaluation shows that our system generates sarcasm better than human annotators 34% of the time, and better than a reinforced hybrid baseline 90% of the time.

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  1. 2021Symbolic Knowledge Distillation: from General Language Models to Commonsense Modelscited by 270
  2. 2021The Perils of Using Mechanical Turk to Evaluate Open-Ended Text Generationcited by 96
  3. 2021RiddleSense: Reasoning about Riddle Questions Featuring Linguistic Creativity and Commonsense Knowledgecited by 60
  4. 2021It's not Rocket Science : Interpreting Figurative Language in Narrativescited by 39
  5. 2022When did you become so smart, oh wise one?! Sarcasm Explanation in Multi-modal Multi-party Dialoguescited by 32
  6. 2021Lawyers are Dishonest? Quantifying Representational Harms in Commonsense Knowledge Resourcescited by 30
  7. 2021Knowledge-Grounded Self-Rationalization via Extractive and Natural Language Explanationscited by 24
  8. 2021HypoGen: Hyperbole Generation with Commonsense and Counterfactual Knowledgecited by 22
  9. 2022AmbiPun: Generating Humorous Puns with Ambiguous Contextcited by 21
  10. 2023Multi-source Semantic Graph-based Multimodal Sarcasm Explanation Generationcited by 19
  11. 2021MOVER: Mask, Over-generate and Rank for Hyperbole Generationcited by 13
  12. 2023GD-COMET: A Geo-Diverse Commonsense Inference Modelcited by 13
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  1. 2023What happens before and after: Multi-Event Commonsense in Event Coreference Resolutioncited by 12
  2. 2021!Qu'e maravilla! Multimodal Sarcasm Detection in Spanish: a Dataset and a Baselinecited by 8
  3. 2024Creativity in AI: Progresses and Challengescited by 7
  4. 2022A Survey in Automatic Irony Processing: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Multi-X Perspectivescited by 6
  5. 2022Controllable Text Generation for Open-Domain Creativity and Fairnesscited by 6
  6. 2022Explaining (Sarcastic) Utterances to Enhance Affect Understanding in Multimodal Dialoguescited by 6
  7. 2024Sentiment-enhanced Graph-based Sarcasm Explanation in Dialoguecited by 6
  8. 2021From Theories on Styles to their Transfer in Text: Bridging the Gap with a Hierarchical Surveycited by 5
  9. 2023Creative Data Generation: A Review Focusing on Text and Poetrycited by 5
  10. 2023"Im not Racist but...": Discovering Bias in the Internal Knowledge of Large Language Modelscited by 5
  11. 2022kogito: A Commonsense Knowledge Inference Toolkitcited by 4
  12. 2024ImpScore: A Learnable Metric For Quantifying The Implicitness Level of Sentencecited by 3
  13. 2025Target-Augmented Shared Fusion-based Multimodal Sarcasm Explanation Generationcited by 3
  14. 2021Does Commonsense help in detecting Sarcasm?cited by 2
  15. 2022Multi-Figurative Language Generationcited by 2
  16. 2022Computational Sarcasm Analysis on Social Media: A Systematic Reviewcited by 2
  17. 2022How to Describe Images in a More Funny Way? Towards a Modular Approach to Cross-Modal Sarcasm Generationcited by 1
  18. 2023"When Words Fail, Emojis Prevail": Generating Sarcastic Utterances with Emoji Using Valence Reversal and Semantic Incongruitycited by 1
  19. 2024TECO: Improving Multimodal Intent Recognition with Text Enhancement through Commonsense Knowledge Extractioncited by 1
  20. 2023CASE: Commonsense-Augmented Score with an Expanded Answer Spacecited by 0