Automatic Satire Detection: Are You Having a Laugh?

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  • Clinton Burfoot
  • Timothy Baldwin
چکیده

We introduce the novel task of determining whether a newswire article is “true” or satirical. We experiment with SVMs, feature scaling, and a number of lexical and semantic feature types, and achieve promising results over the task.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009