Automatic Satire Detection: Are You Having a Laugh?

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.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Clint Burfoot, Timothy Baldwin
• Keywords: ACL 2009, Computational Linguistics, Feature Scaling, Satirical, Semantic Feature Types