[clug] Sarcasm detection

[Jeff]

On 28/05/10 12:51 PM, Ivan Miljenovic wrote:
> One of the side-conversations last night was related to how
> programmers find it difficult to detect sarcasm; someone obviously got
> sick of this problem and decided to solve it:
> http://news.discovery.com/tech/sarasm-online-computer-program.html
>
>    
This brought to mind Poe's Law:

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is 
impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't 
mistake for the real thing

from  http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law

That may have to be the next target of his research.

Jeff.