patiala researchers from the indian institute of technology iit ropar have developed a code to detect sarcasm in news headlines the team studied two international news organisationsone with sarcastic headlines and the other without their research paper was published in international journal the institute of electrical and electronics engineers ieee in november 2020 the researchers claimed that computer program can detect sarcasm with more than 86 accuracy the sarcasm detector works using neural networks to understand how a computer learns the patterns of sarcasm the project also consists of a deeplearning system that categorises a certain newspaper headline as either sarcastic or nonsarcastic after being trained on similar examplesmechanical engineering department researchers parnavi shrikhande and vikram setty worked under the guidance of assistant professor ashish sahani at the centre for biomedical engineering iitropar sarcasm is an important part of communication but difficult to tell newspapers often seem to employ sarcasm in their headlines to grab the readers attention but more often than not the readers miss the irony get a wrong idea about that particular news and pass on their misunderstanding to their friends and colleagues said shrikhandethe news headlines set provided on kaggle consists of 26709 headlines with 11724 sarcastic headlines using outside dataset for personality emotion etc we were able to predict sarcasm in a particular news headline our model is capable of learning to distinguish between the sarcastic and nonsarcastic headlines with no context said setty