Figurative messages and affect in Twitter: Differences between #irony, #sarcasm and #not

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 108, Issue , 2016, Pages 132-143

  Sulis, Emilio ^a   Irazú Hernández Farías, Delia ^a,b   Rosso, Paolo ^b   Patti, Viviana ^a   Ruffo, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Affective knowledge; Figurative language; Irony; Sarcasm; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS; SEPARATION;

AFFECTIVE KNOWLEDGE; FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE; IRONY; SARCASM; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84970045127     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2016.05.035     Document Type: Article

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