US Secret Service buys software that recognizes sarcasm in social networks

In an order posted online on Monday, the CC describes the need for a service that is able, among other things, to analyze large amounts of data from social media and visualize the result. Recognizing sarcasm is only one of the many functions of the required software, but it was she who attracted the attention of Washington Post journalists, whose headlines sound (for test purposes, I suppose, goals): “The secret service needs software that recognizes sarcasm on social networks. (Yeah, good luck) ”and“ The Secret Service needs software that recognizes sarcasm on social networks. We have no doubt that it will work . ”



By the way, the development of software that recognizes sarcasm is quite real. A year ago, an article on Habré skipped up that the French company Spotter developed a tool that, according to them, is able to identify sarcasm in comments on the Internet .
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as reported by Slashdot, not only Spotter deals with this problem: IBM, Salesforce, and several other large IT companies are also actively working on analytical software that can recognize comments from users who like this allegorical nature.

So the Secret Service will have plenty to choose from. It remains to understand why they need it. SS, if someone does not know, analogue of our FSO - is engaged in the protection of the first persons of the state. They probably think that stingy users are at risk.



(But in Russia they would simply introduce the obligatory use of the irony tag and penalties for non-compliance.)