Irony

AbstractIrony, a creative use of language, has received scarce attention from the computational linguistics research point of view. We propose an automatic system capable of detecting irony with good accuracy …...

In this paper we present our approach to automatically identify the subjectivity, po- larity and irony of Italian Tweets. Our system which reaches and outperforms the state of the art …...

This paper describes our contribution to the SemEval-2015 Task 11 on sentiment analysis of figurative language in Twitter. We consid- ered two approaches, classification and regres- sion, to provide fine-grained …...

AbstractHandling figurative language like irony is currently a challenging task in natural language processing. Since irony is commonly used in user-generated content, its presence can significantly undermine accurate analysis of …...

The paper describes a recently-created Twitter corpus of about 6,000 tweets, annotated for hate speech against immigrants, and developed to be a reference dataset for an automatic system of hate …...

AbstractIdentifying irony in user-generated social media content has a wide range of applications; however to date Arabic content has received limited attention. To bridge this gap, this study builds a …...

AbstractIrony is a linguistic device used to intend an idea while articulating an opposing expression. Many text analytic algorithms used for emotion extraction or sentiment analysis, produce invalid results due …...

AbstractThis paper presents multidimensional Social Opinion Mining on user-generated content gathered from newswires and social networking services in three different languages: English —a high-resourced language, Maltese —a low-resourced language, and …...