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SOUKHRIA: Towards an Irony Detection System for Arabic in Social Media
Author(s) -
Jihen Karoui,
Farah Banamara Zitoune,
Véronique Moriceau
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
procedia computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 76
ISSN - 1877-0509
DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2017.10.105
Subject(s) - arabic , irony , classifier (uml) , computer science , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , binary classification , social media , linguistics , support vector machine , world wide web , philosophy
International audienceThis paper presents a supervised learning method for irony detection in Arabic tweets. A binary classifier uses four groups of features whose efficiency has been empirically proved in other languages such as French, English, Italian, Dutch and Japanese. Our first results are encouraging and show that state of the art features can be successfully applied to Arabic language with an accuracy of 72.76%

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