Two lines of research are directly relevant to our work: sarcasm detection in Twitter and application of distributional semantics, such as word embedding techniques to various NLP tasks.
to current research on sarcasm and irony detection (Davidov et al., 2010;Riloff et al., 2013;Liebrecht et al., 2013;Maynard and Greenwood, 2014), we have introduced a reframing of this task as a type of word sense disambiguation problem, where the sense of a word is sarcastic or literal.