Initial exploration into sarcasm and irony through machine translation

Chia Zheng Lin, Michal Ptaszynski, Marzena Karpinska, Juuso Eronen, Fumito Masui

Abstract: Highlights•We investigate irony through machine translation with diverse resources and measures.•We present an exhaustive review on the topic of irony and machine translation.•We introduce a novel comprehensive evaluation metric for machine translation.•We identify mBART as the preferred translation model through rigorous tests.•We explore the utility of translated data for data augmentation for models training.