| Challenge: | Existing approaches to capture news satire do not explore sentence and document difference . |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical deep neural network approach for satire detection . it is able to capture satirical news both at the sentence level and document level . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can capture satire at sentence and document levels. |
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