Applied intelligence with deep learning assisted automated sarcasm recognition in twitter data

2026-03-09

Muhammad Swaileh A. Alzaidi, Taghreed Ali Alsudais, Majdy M. Eltahir, Shouki A. Ebad, Asma Alshuhail, Mohammed Alshahrani, Sultan Alanazi,
Applied intelligence with deep learning assisted automated sarcasm recognition in twitter data,
Alexandria Engineering Journal,
Volume 128,
2025,
Pages 79-91,
ISSN 1110-0168,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2025.05.041.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S111001682500660X)
Abstract: Sarcasm is essential in human interaction, particularly on social networking, where individuals share their feelings through criticism, humour, and satire. Sarcasm detection is vital in understanding the context of communication and the sentiment on platforms such as Twitter. This presents sarcasm detection as a complex problem in natural language processing (NLP). The challenges and importance upsurge, particularly in languages such as Arabic and Urdu, where resources for NLP are inadequate. The classical rule-based techniques need to improve performance owing to sarcasm's context-based and subtle nature. On the other hand, the current developments in deep learning (DL) and NLP offer efficient solutions. Therefore, this study presents an Applied Intelligence with Deep Learning Assisted Automated Sarcasm Recognition Approach (AIDL-ASRA) on Twitter Data. The presented AIDL-ASRA technique concentrates on identifying sarcastic and non-sarcastic contexts in tweets. In the AIDL-ASRA technique, the initial pre-processing stage is executed with different subprocesses. Next, Global Vectors for Word Representation (GloVe)-based word embedding process occurs. The AIDL-ASRA technique utilizes the Discriminative Deep Belief Networks (DDBN) method for sarcasm recognition. The DBN model's effectiveness is improved using the cat swarm optimization (CSO) model. A set of experiments were involved in evaluating the performance of the AIDL-ASRA method under the Arabic sarcastic dataset comprising 10,000 tweets. The experimental validation of the AIDL-ASRA method attained a superior accuracy value of 91.25 % over existing techniques under distinct measures.
Keywords: Sarcasm Recognition; Sentiment Analysis; Twitter Data; Deep Learning; Cat Swarm Optimization; Word Embedding