Automatic detection of sarcasm has witnessed interest from the sentiment
analysis research community. With diverse approaches, datasets and analyses
that have been reported, there is an essential need to have a collective
understanding of the research in this area. In this survey of automatic sarcasm
detection, we describe datasets, approaches (both supervised and rule-based),
and trends in sarcasm detection research.

Full paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.03426.pdf