“I remember hearing her say stuff and figuring out that she didn't mean what she said,” says Walker, who leads the Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab at UC Santa Cruz. “She used to say ...

It’s funny how sarcasm is associated with humor. “To tear flesh like a dog,” is not a jolly image, but the word nonetheless derives from the Greek sarkazein, meaning just that. It evolved to mean “to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Evan Vucci, The Associated Press Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks Saturday during a campaign rally in Fairfield, Conn. Re: “In reversal, ...

OK, I do have a T-shirt which has the title of this column as the message on the shirt. And, I might have another T-shirt which says something like, “Sarcasm – Just One of the Many Free Services I ...

A team of students participating in Cornell University’s Tech Challenge program has developed a machine learning application that attempts to break the final frontier in language ...

A godly tongue speaks humor that heals, not hurts. I grew up in a very funny family—not the kind of funny that sends you to therapy, but the kind that is its own form of therapy. My Irish relatives ...

If you've ever been told to tone down your sarcasm, science might actually be on your side. While sarcasm often gets a bad rap as biting or mean-spirited, research suggests there's more to this ...