We introduce the novel task of determining whether a newswire article is "true" or satirical. We experiment with SVMs, feature scaling, and a number of lexical and semantic feature types, and achieve promising results over the task.
REF use SVM to determine whether newswire articles are true or satirical.
Automatic Satire Detection: Are You Having a Laugh?
ACL-IJCNLP: Short Papers
Computer Science