A multidimensional approach for detecting irony in Twitter

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 239-268

  Reyes, Antonio ^a   Rosso, Paolo ^a   Veale, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Figurative language processing; Irony detection; Negation; Web text analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874703151     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-012-9196-x     Document Type: Article

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