Al learns to spot sarcasm in your tweets

• Autores: Edd Gent
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3086, 2016, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Picking upon sarcasm online can be hard even for humans. For computers, its often a major headache. But now a machine learning system has leaned to spot when they're being sarcastic just by reading their past tweets. Mining comments on social media is big business. Advertisers track their attitudes and moods, companies and governments follow public opinion. But people being sarcastic and saying the opposite of what they mean makes this tricky. So Silvio Amir at the university of Lisbon, Portugal, and his colleagues turned to machine learning. They trained the system to spot sarcasm on mutter simply by looking at a user's tweets