Signaling sarcasm: From hyperbole to hashtag

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 500-509

  Kunneman, Florian ^a   Liebrecht, Christine ^b   Van Mulken, Margot ^a   Van Den Bosch, Antal ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic sentiment analysis; Opinion mining; Sarcasm; Social media; Verbal irony

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS;

OPINION MINING; SARCASM; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; VERBAL IRONY;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 85027952802     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2014.07.006     Document Type: Article

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