A Modular Architecture for Unsupervised Sarcasm Generation (D19-1)

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Challenge: Existing systems for sarcasm generation are elusive due to the fact that both selection of contents and training of sarcasm are based on the same data.
Approach: They propose a framework that takes a literal negative opinion as input and translates it into a sarcastic version.
Outcome: The proposed system outperforms baselines built using known unsupervised statistical and neural machine translation and style transfer techniques.

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