Eine der letzten Bastionen der Menschen ist gefallen, schon bald werden Computer die Weltherrschaft übernehmen: Ein Team an der Hebrew University of Jerusalem hat einen Algorithmus entwickelt, mit dessen Hilfe Computer Sarkasmus erkennen können:
"SASI, a Semi-supervised Algorithm for Sarcasm Identification, can recognize sarcastic sentences in product reviews online with pretty astounding 77 percent precision. To create such an algorithm, the team scanned 66,000 Amazon.com product reviews, with three different human annotators tagging sentences for sarcasm. The team then identified certain sarcastic patterns that emerged in the reviews and created a classification algorithm that puts each statement into a sarcastic class. The algorithms were then trained on that seed set of 80 sentences from the collection of reviews. These annotated sentences helped the algorithm learn what sorts of words and patterns distinguish sarcastic remarks – those that mean the opposite of what they literally convey, or that convey a sentiment inconsistent with the literal reading. ..." Computer Algorithm Can Recognize Sarcasm (Which Is Just Soooo Cool)
