Analysis software US secret service must recognize sarcasm

The US secret service USSS wants to develop software for the analysis of social media messages that can recognize sarcasm. This is stated in documents that the secret service itself has put online.

With the detection of sarcasm, the Secret Service, which operates separately from the more well-known FBI and NSA and deals with, among other things, the security of the president, probably wants to limit the number of reports from the analysis software. The secret service wants to use the software to monitor social media in real time for suspicious activity. Some of the service’s 6,500 employees should have access to the system at the same time, according to the published work order discovered by the site NextGov.

The requirements also state that the system must work in Internet Explorer 8, the default browser with the release of Windows 7. With the work order, the Secret Service invites software makers to create the system. The USSS does not specify how the system for recognizing sarcasm should work.