Detection of sarcasm in tweets using hybrid machine learning method
Abstract
When one wants to express the contrary of what they mean, especially when insulting someone, sarcasm is used. One of the challenges associated with the control and management of content on social networking sites such as Twitter and other social media sites, is the recognition of sarcasm. Because sarcasm is purposefully conveyed through ambiguous word choice, even for humans it can be challenging to identify. Existing methods for automatically detecting sarcasm rely heavily on lexical as well as linguistic clues the majority of the time. On the other hand, these methods have not yielded a large or even a minor enhancement in terms of the correctness of the mood. The purpose of this study is to increase the accuracy of sentiment analysis by proposing a system that is both reliable and effective at identifying sarcasm. In this investigation, three different types of features are focussed: lexical, sarcastic, and context features. These feature sets are utilised in the process of categorising tweets as either sarcastic or not sarcastic. This research presents a sarcastic feature set coupled with an efficient hybrid machine learning approach, which ultimately results in improved accuracy. The results of the experiments reveal that the recommended hybrid machine learning method achieves 97.3% accuracy for sarcastic feature sets which is better when compared to existing machine learning techniques namely k-nearest neighbor, random forest, support vector machine and decision tree for the selection of the appropriate features.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32629/jai.v7i4.800
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