Automatic satire detection: are you having a laugh?

  • Authors:
  • Clint Burfoot;Timothy Baldwin

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Melbourne, VIC Australia;University of Melbourne, VIC Australia

  • Venue:
  • ACLShort '09 Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce the novel task of determining whether a newswire article is "true" or satirical. We experiment with SVMs, feature scaling, and a number of lexical and semantic feature types, and achieve promising results over the task.