From humor recognition to irony detection: The figurative language of social media

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Reyes;Paolo Rosso;Davide Buscaldi

  • Affiliations:
  • Natural Language Engineering Lab - ELiRF, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n 46022, Valencia, Spain;Natural Language Engineering Lab - ELiRF, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n 46022, Valencia, Spain;Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, France

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The research described in this paper is focused on analyzing two playful domains of language: humor and irony, in order to identify key values components for their automatic processing. In particular, we are focused on describing a model for recognizing these phenomena in social media, such as ''tweets''. Our experiments are centered on five data sets retrieved from Twitter taking advantage of user-generated tags, such as ''#humor'' and ''#irony''. The model, which is based on textual features, is assessed on two dimensions: representativeness and relevance. The results, apart from providing some valuable insights into the creative and figurative usages of language, are positive regarding humor, and encouraging regarding irony.