Automatic Detection of Irony: Opinion Mining in Microblogs and Social Media

Karoui, Jihen; Benamara, Farah; Moriceau, Veronique

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of opinion-heavy texts on the Web: opinions of Internet users, comments on social networks, etc. Automating the synthesis of opinions has become crucial to gaining an overview on a given topic. Current automatic systems perform well on classifying the subjective or objective character of a document. However, classifications obtained from polarity analysis remain inconclusive, due to the algorithms' inability to understand the subtleties of human language. Automatic Detection of Irony presents, in three stages, a supervised learning approach to predicting whether a tweet is ironic or not. The book begins by analyzing some everyday examples of irony and presenting a reference corpus. It then develops an automatic irony detection model for French tweets that exploits semantic traits and extralinguistic context. Finally, it presents a study of portability in a multilingual framework (Italian, English, Arabic).

Details

Published by: Wiley-ISTE

Publication Date: 2019-11-05

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781786303998

DOI:

Dimensions: 241.3cm x162.6cm

Pages: 210.0