... research are asfollows: (1) we introduce a novel task to the arenaof computational linguistics and machine learning,and make available a standardised dataset for re-search on satire detection; and ... validityLexical approaches are clearly inadequate if weassume that good satirical news articles tend toemulate real news in tone, style, and content.What is needed is an approach that captures ... Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers, pages 161–164,Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009.c2009 ACL and AFNLPAutomatic Satire Detection: Are You Having a Laugh?Clint BurfootCSSEUniversity...