The Secret Services (Secret Service) of the United States are looking for a sophisticated social networking software that can detect when someone is sarcastic, among others. US services they say that they are particularly interested in Twitter, according to one of their spokespersons, who told The Washington Post that the tweets they will help her service to make better decisions in emergency situations need.
The software should provide real-time analysis, keyword searches, sentiment analysis, recognize influencers, and have "the ability to detect sarcasm as well as lies." THE detector σαρκασμού πιθανόν θα επέτρεπε στη Μυστική Υπηρεσία να κρίνει better the seriousness of the threats posted on Twitter;
The request of the Secret Service, was discovered by the blog Nextgov, and has caused a flood of sarcastic responses and reviews on social networks. "Any attempt to algorithmically detect sarcasm will fail because sarcasm is self-referential," says author and blogger Charlie Stross, "and realizing that there is a sarcasm detector can change the intent behind the message."
