Search results for "sarcasm"
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Laughing with machines : philosophical analysis on the preconditions of sense of humour for machines
2021
This article will analyse the preconditions of sense of humour for artificial intelligence. Can artificial intelligence have a sense of humour? Is there a difference between human and machine laughter? Some machines already fulfil certain conditions which are associated with the human sense of humour: on the most superficial level machines appear to laugh and produce jokes, and they recognize sarcasm and punchlines, and they can evaluate funniness. In short, artificial intelligence is already able to recognize humour, and reacts to it accordingly. Furthermore, people laugh with humorous machines. However, it is still uncertain whether artificial intelligence can have a sense of humour or no…
Effectiveness of Data-Driven Induction of Semantic Spaces and Traditional Classifiers for Sarcasm Detection
2019
Irony and sarcasm are two complex linguistic phenomena that are widely used in everyday language and especially over the social media, but they represent two serious issues for automated text understanding. Many labeled corpora have been extracted from several sources to accomplish this task, and it seems that sarcasm is conveyed in different ways for different domains. Nonetheless, very little work has been done for comparing different methods among the available corpora. Furthermore, usually, each author collects and uses their own datasets to evaluate his own method. In this paper, we show that sarcasm detection can be tackled by applying classical machine learning algorithms to input te…
Análisis y revisión del sarcasmo y la lítote: propuesta desde la Teoría de la Relevancia
2009
Overall, sarcasm and litote have been considered rhetorical fi gures and, therefore, dislocated uses of language. Classical studies accept the existence of two different languages: the literal one and the fi gurative one, whereas more recent theoretical frameworks, such as Relevance Theory, disagree with this standpoint. In that sense, this paper attempts to revisit some classical considerations from the perspective of Relevance Theory; one signifi cant conclusion will be that there is only one language with different uses guided by communicative relevance.
Irony and the moral order of secondary school classrooms
2011
Abstract This paper describes how irony is used to negatively evaluate student behaviour in sequences where students disrupt or resist the official business of the lesson and thus challenge the teacher's authority. Irony-implicative utterances, i.e. utterances hearable as ironic in their context, are examined from two complementary perspectives: (i) the intricate interactional work utterances involve; how utterances are hearable as ironic and how participants negotiate their implications within the sequences of action in which the utterances are occasioned and used, and (ii) the use of irony in the local management of moral orders in the classroom. Findings show that irony-implicative utter…
IRONIA, SARCASME I ALTRES RECURSOS EN L’EXPRESSIÓ PERIODÍSTICA DE JOAN FUSTER. EL CAS DE LES NOTES D’UN DESFICIÓS (1979-1984) / IRONY, SARCASM AND OT…
2018
EnglishIrony is among the discursive techniques employed by the essayist and columnist Joan Fuster i Ortells (1922-1992). This register, which the writer used in diferent ways, is also present in his journalistic production. This journalistic body of work has a significnat place within “the journalism of ideas” in Catalan and Spanish of the second half of the 20th century. Fuster’s uses of this resource and its the different ways and degrees to which he employed it were conditioned by aspects such as the intended audience, the newspaper where a given article or column was to be published; the issue or issues being addressed, the historical and thematic context of the text and, of course, ev…
Sviluppi della Intelligenza Computazionale: l'esempio del Sarcasm Detection
2016
Dopo un periodo prolungato in cui vigeva uno scarto persistente tra l’ottimismo dato dai grandi proclami di ricerca e la scarsità e frammentarietà di risultati veri e tangibili, viviamo (finalmente) nell’era delle grandi conquiste dell’Intelligenza Artificiale
A Novel Approach for Supporting Italian Satire Detection Through Deep Learning
2021
Satire is a way of criticizing people (or ideas) by ridiculing them on political, social, and morals topics often used to denounce political and societal problems, leveraging comedic devices such as parody exaggeration, incongruity, etc.etera. Detecting satire is one of the most challenging computational linguistics tasks, natural language processing, and social multimedia sentiment analysis. In particular, as satirical texts include figurative communication for expressing ideas/opinions concerning people, sentiment analysis systems may be negatively affected; therefore, satire should be adequately addressed to avoid such systems’ performance degradation. This paper tackles automatic satire…
Analysis and Comparison of Deep Learning Networks for Supporting Sentiment Mining in Text Corpora
2020
In this paper, we tackle the problem of the irony and sarcasm detection for the Italian language to contribute to the enrichment of the sentiment analysis field. We analyze and compare five deep-learning systems. Results show the high suitability of such systems to face the problem by achieving 93% of F1-Score in the best case. Furthermore, we briefly analyze the model architectures in order to choose the best compromise between performances and complexity.
Astucia y sarcasmo en los inicios del teatro español
2008
La comedia romana (Terencio y Plauto) consolidaron el servus fallax, criado astuto, el cual mediante su ingenio engaña al leno o al padre del joven o la joven, consiguiendo así a la dama. Lo esencial en este modelo de comedia es el enredo, las intrigas que realiza el servus fallax. Dicha tradición se impone en la comedia humanística y, cómo no en la Celestina, en donde se define mejor el personaje, comentando muchas veces con sarcasmo las actuaciones de su amo Calisto. Posteriormente, los autores dramáticos seguirán utilizando a dichos personajes en sus obras, incorporando a otros (caso del bobo, pastor rústico, etc.) que en ciertas piezas teatrales o en los introitos de las comedias retoma…
Analysis and review of the role of sarcasm and litote: A proposal from the perspective of the Theory of Relevance
2009
En general, el sarcasmo y la lítote han sido consideradas tradicionalmente como figuras retóricas y, por tanto, como usos dislocados del lenguaje. Desde la tradición clásica, se ha aceptado que existen dos tipos de lenguaje: el literal y el figurado. En tal sentido, este artículo pretende hacer un repaso a algunas consideraciones realizadas desde la Teoría de la Relevancia y, por tanto, concluir que existe un único lenguaje que depende de la relevancia comunicativa perseguida. Overall, sarcasm and litote have been considered rhetorical figures and, therefore, dislocated uses of language. Classical studies accept the existence of two different languages: the literal one and the figurative on…