"With 1 follower I must be AWESOME :P". Exploring the role of irony markers in irony recognition

Conversations in social media often contain the use of irony or sarcasm, when\nthe users say the opposite of what they really mean. Irony markers are the\nmeta-communicative clues that inform the reader that an utterance is ironic. We\npropose a thorough analysis of theoretically grounded irony markers in two\nsocial media platforms: $Twitter$ and $Reddit$. Classification and frequency\nanalysis show that for $Twitter$, typographic markers such as emoticons and\nemojis are the most discriminative markers to recognize ironic utterances,\nwhile for $Reddit$ the morphological markers (e.g., interjections, tag\nquestions) are the most discriminative.\n