Detecting sarcasm, combating hate
Aditya Joshi |
TEDxSomaiyaVidyavihar
• March 2018
In his talk at TEDxSomaiyaVidyavihar 2018, Dr. Aditya Joshi talks about two major aspects of his life: sarcasm and being openly out. While succinctly explaining how computational sarcasm works, he reflects upon the way in which the LGBTQ+ community is perceived in India, and his personal struggle against the same.
Dr. Aditya Joshi is a researcher in Natural Language Processing (NLP) whose Ph.D. thesis on ‘Computational Sarcasm’ has resulted in first-of- their-kind techniques to detect sarcasm in text and generate sarcastic responses.