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Abbravation: Knowledge and Information Systems

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0219-3116

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On the difficulty of automatically detecting irony

Authors: Antonio Reyes Paolo Rosso
Publish Date: 2013/05/01
Volume: 40, Issue: 3, Pages: 595-614
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It is well known that irony is one of the most subtle devices used to in a refined way and without a negation marker deny what is literally said As such its automatic detection would represent valuable knowledge regarding tasks as diverse as sentiment analysis information extraction or decision making The research described in this article is focused on identifying key values of components to represent underlying characteristics of this linguistic phenomenon In the absence of a negation marker we focus on representing the core of irony by means of three conceptual layers These layers involve 8 different textual features By representing four available data sets with these features we try to find hints about how to deal with this unexplored task from a computational point of view Our findings are assessed by human annotators in two strata isolated sentences and entire documents The results show how complex and subjective the task of automatically detecting irony could beThe research work of Paolo Rosso was done in the framework of the European Commission WIQEI Web Information Quality Evaluation Initiative IRSES grant no 269180 project within the FP 7 Marie Curie People the DIANAAPPLICATIONS Finding Hidden Knowledge in Texts Applications TIN201238603C0201 project and the VLC/CAMPUS Microcluster on Multimodal Interaction in Intelligent Systems“In some respects Rush Hour is the ultimate exercise in cliched filmmaking The hero is the renegade cop that prefers to work alone The cop in question cannot solve the case until he gets in trouble All Chinese people are somehow involved in the criminal element The duo must always be completely mismatched The hero has to say some smartassed comment before and after shooting someone However that doesn’t necessarily make for a bad film” doc id cv402 14425txt“Making her dramatic debut after appearing in over 300 triple X adult films porn star Nina Hartley takes command of her role with considerable assurance and a screen presence which puts many other contemporary ’straight’ actresses to shame” doc id cv422 9381txt


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