Oh isn’t AI so clever. We're just soooo happy that some researchers in the Netherlands have built an AI sarcasm detector. 🙄 Reading the room perfectly for how we feel about artificial intelligence (AI), the Speech Technology Lab at the University of Groningen has created a programme able to discern tone of voice and sarcasm.
It might be the lowest form of wit, but the AI is an impressive development through displaying how technology can understand more subjective aspects of text. In a to the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association, the researchers explained how the prevalence of sarcasm in human-written text means that without AI properly detecting it, there would be huge gaps in the potential capabilities of AI text comprehension. Previous AI sarcasm detectors only used one parameter, but this new technology combines methods.
“We extracted acoustic parameters such as pitch, speaking rate, and energy from speech, then used Automatic Speech Recognition to transcribe the speech into text for sentiment analysis,” said researcher Xiyuan Gao. “Next, we assigned emoticons to each speech segment, reflecting its emotional content. By integrating these multimodal cues into a machine learning algorithm, our approach leverages the combined strengths of auditory and textual information along with emoticons for a comprehensive analysis,” Gao explained.
The team relied on the Mustard (Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Dataset) database of sarcasm examp.
