This repository contains the code of RGCL's submission for IDAT 2019 Shared Task. The task aims at detecting irony in Arabic tweets. Given a tweet, systems have to classify it as either ironic or not ironic. As far as we know, this is the first shared task on irony for the Arabic language.
| Model | Precision | Recall | F1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capsule | 0.807 | 0.800 | 0.798 |
| CNN | 0.806 | 0.801 | 0.800 |
| Pooled GRU | 0.800 | 0.789 | 0.785 |
| Attention LSTM | 0.788 | 0.766 | 0.760 |
| Attention LSTM GRU | 0.783 | 0.768 | 0.762 |
| Attention Capsule | 0.776 | 0.768 | 0.764 |