Rhetorical Device-Aware Sarcasm Detection with Counterfactual Data Augmentation (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Sarcasm is a complex form of sentiment expression widely used in human daily life. |
| Approach: | They propose a device-aware sarcasm dataset with counterfactually augmented data to capture its complexity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that it is more balanced than zero-shot models. |
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