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Main Authors: Mane, Swapnil, Khatavkar, Vaibhav
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01424
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author Mane, Swapnil
Khatavkar, Vaibhav
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Khatavkar, Vaibhav
contents Sarcasm detection in product reviews requires balancing domain-specific symbolic pattern recognition with deep semantic understanding. Symbolic representations capture explicit linguistic phenomena that are often decisive for sarcasm detection. Existing work either favors interpretable symbolic representation or semantic neural modeling, but rarely achieves both effectively. Prior hybrid methods typically combine these paradigms through feature fusion or ensembling, which can degrade performance. We propose CascadeNS, a confidence-calibrated neurosymbolic architecture that integrates symbolic and neural reasoning through selective activation rather than fusion. A symbolic semigraph handles pattern-rich instances with high confidence, while semantically ambiguous cases are delegated to a neural module based on pre-trained LLM embeddings. At the core of CascadeNS is a calibrated confidence measure derived from polarity-weighted semigraph scores. This measure reliably determines when symbolic reasoning is sufficient and when neural analysis is needed. Experiments on product reviews show that CascadeNS outperforms the strong baselines by 7.44%.
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spellingShingle CascadeNS: Confidence-Cascaded Neurosymbolic Model for Sarcasm Detection
Mane, Swapnil
Khatavkar, Vaibhav
Computation and Language
Sarcasm detection in product reviews requires balancing domain-specific symbolic pattern recognition with deep semantic understanding. Symbolic representations capture explicit linguistic phenomena that are often decisive for sarcasm detection. Existing work either favors interpretable symbolic representation or semantic neural modeling, but rarely achieves both effectively. Prior hybrid methods typically combine these paradigms through feature fusion or ensembling, which can degrade performance. We propose CascadeNS, a confidence-calibrated neurosymbolic architecture that integrates symbolic and neural reasoning through selective activation rather than fusion. A symbolic semigraph handles pattern-rich instances with high confidence, while semantically ambiguous cases are delegated to a neural module based on pre-trained LLM embeddings. At the core of CascadeNS is a calibrated confidence measure derived from polarity-weighted semigraph scores. This measure reliably determines when symbolic reasoning is sufficient and when neural analysis is needed. Experiments on product reviews show that CascadeNS outperforms the strong baselines by 7.44%.
title CascadeNS: Confidence-Cascaded Neurosymbolic Model for Sarcasm Detection
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01424