Tag: SARCASM

For those who often miss out on a virtual joke, scientists have found a way to help identify online sarcasm. According to Geekosystem, a team from the Institute of Computer Science at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem developed an algorithm that detects sarcastic sentences posted online. The Semi-Supervised Sarcasm Identification Algorithm (SASI) learns to detect sarcasm by studying sentences ...

It should come as no surprise that at Switched we communicate, not only with each other, but the outside world primarily through electronic means. In fact, last week's CES was the first time most of us have ventured outside of our solitary writing dungeons in months. One of the shortcomings of e-mail and instant messaging is that often our natural snark and sarcasm gets lost in translation to ...

Jealousy is a bitter fruit. The Sarcastic Gamer has decided that since he can't afford Microsoft's Surface, he'll just mock it. It's just a bit of comedy, but it should help all of those out there whose hearts are still all aflutter over the Surface. We're just as guilty as any of feeding the hype, so it's good to be reminded every once in a while that, hey -- its just a really expensive ...