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Friday, May 28, 2010

Sarcasm 101 for computers

Ran across this article thanks to some friends on FB.. how do they have all that time to root out such things? And it hit a spot. So now, we can identify sarcasm by computer? How amusing that may turn out to be, when it is hard enough to identify sarcasm and/or irony by reading and/or listening ourselves? This may just turn into the funniest read akin to those 'instant' translations which are truly just too funny for anyone who actually speaks the language! A real gobbledygook ;-).
And if one tries to translate the late FALCO's Viennese Blood Song.. watch out. There are lots of dialect phrases and idioms which simply cannot be translated by computer, but hey, feel free to try! LOL!

Just what we need: sarcasm software - tech - 25 May 2010 - New Scientist

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