This page was migrated from https://nlds.soe.ucsc.edu/sarcasm-rq
If you use this data in your research, please refer to and cite: Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Amita Misra, Ellen Riloff and Marilyn Walker. "Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog." SIGDIAL 2017. Saarbrucken, Germany.
The Sarcasm Rhetorical Questions Corpus is a dataset of 10,270 rhetorical questions (RQs) from two domains: debate forums (2,496 RQs) and Twitter (7,774 RQs). The data from each domain is split evenly into sarcastic and not-sarcastic uses. This dataset provides an extension to the RQ portion of the Sarcasm Corpus V2.
This download is currently a random sample of the forums dataset.