Irony Detection, Reasoning and Understanding in Zero-shot Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16884v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:13:07 GMT
• Title: Irony Detection, Reasoning and Understanding in Zero-shot Learning
• Authors: Peiling Yi, Yuhan Xia,
• Abstract summary: Irony is a powerful figurative language (FL) on social media that can potentially mislead various NLP tasks. Large language models, such as ChatGPT, are increasingly able to capture implicit and contextual information. We propose a prompt engineering design framework IDADP to achieve higher irony detection accuracy, improved understanding of irony, and more effective explanations.
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• Abstract: Irony is a powerful figurative language (FL) on social media that can potentially mislead various NLP tasks, such as recommendation systems, misinformation checks, and sentiment analysis. Understanding the implicit meaning of this kind of subtle language is essential to mitigate irony's negative impact on NLP tasks. However, building models to understand irony presents a unique set of challenges, because irony is a complex form of language that often relies on context, tone, and subtle cues to convey meaning that is opposite or different from the literal interpretation. Large language models, such as ChatGPT, are increasingly able to capture implicit and contextual information. In this study, we investigate the generalization, reasoning and understanding ability of ChatGPT on irony detection across six different genre irony detection datasets. Our findings suggest that ChatGPT appears to show an enhanced language understanding and reasoning ability. But it needs to be very careful in prompt engineering design. Thus, we propose a prompt engineering design framework IDADP to achieve higher irony detection accuracy, improved understanding of irony, and more effective explanations compared to other state-of-the-art ChatGPT zero-shot approaches. And ascertain via experiments that the practice generated under the framework is likely to be the promised solution to resolve the generalization issues of LLMs.

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