Challenge: sarcasm can be used to hurt, criticize, or deride but also to be mocking, humorous, or to bond.
Approach: They tested the robustness of sarcasm detection models by fine-tuning their behavior on four sarkasmatic datasets . they found that models performed better when fine- tuned with third-party labels than with author labels.
Outcome: The proposed models performed better when fine-tuned with third-party labels than with author labels on the same dataset and across different datasets.

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