Towards a Contextual Pragmatic Model to Detect Irony in Tweets

This paper proposes an approach to capture the pragmatic context needed to infer irony in tweets. We aim to test the validity of two main hypotheses: (1) the presence of negations, as an internal propriety of an utterance, can help to detect the disparity between the literal and the intended meaning of an utterance, (2) a tweet containing an asserted fact of the form Not(P1) is ironic if and only if one can assess

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Jihen Karoui, Farah Benamara, Véronique Moriceau, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Lamia Hadrich Belguith
• Keywords: ACL 2015, Computational Linguistics