Detecting Ironic Intent in Creative Comparisons

Abstract. Irony is an effective but challenging mode of communication that allows a speaker to express sentiment-rich viewpoints with concision, sharpness and humour. Irony is especially common in online documents that express subjective and deeply-felt opinions, and thus represents a significant obstacle to the accurate analysis of sentiment in web texts. In this paper we look at one commonly used framing device for linguistic irony

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ECAI
• Authors: Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Challenging Mode, ECAI 2010, Large Corpus Analysis, Web-harvested Similes