Social Media Tool Designed to Detect Sarcasm

People with autism spectrum disorder often have trouble detecting sarcasm and irony, particularly when it is written in text. Now researchers have developed a system, called Sarcasm SIGN (sarcasm Sentimental Interpretation GeNerator), that can interpret sarcastic statements in social media.
Automatic identification and analysis of sentiment — human feeling or meaning — in text is a very challenging subject being explored by researchers worldwide, but so far none have develo