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Authors: Debora Nozza ; Elisabetta Fersini and Enza Messina

Affiliation: University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Keyword(s): Irony Detection, Unsupervised Learning, Probabilistic Model, Word Embeddings.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Artificial Intelligence ; Business Analytics ; Clustering and Classification Methods ; Computational Intelligence ; Data Analytics ; Data Engineering ; Evolutionary Computing ; Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval ; Knowledge-Based Systems ; Machine Learning ; Mining Text and Semi-Structured Data ; Soft Computing ; Symbolic Systems

Abstract: The automatic detection of figurative language, such as irony and sarcasm, is one of the most challenging tasks of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This is because machine learning methods can be easily misled by the presence of words that have a strong polarity but are used ironically, which means that the opposite polarity was intended. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised framework for domain-independent irony detection. In particular, to derive an unsupervised Topic-Irony Model (TIM), we built upon an existing probabilistic topic model initially introduced for sentiment analysis purposes. Moreover, in order to improve its generalization abilities, we took advantage of Word Embeddings to obtain domain-aware ironic orientation of words. This is the first work that addresses this task in unsupervised settings and the first study on the topic-irony distribution. Experimental results have shown that TIM is comparable, and sometimes even better with respect to supervised state of the art approaches for irony detection. Moreover, when integrating the probabilistic model with word embeddings (TIM+WE), promising results have been obtained in a more complex and real world scenario. (More)

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Nozza, D.; Fersini, E. and Messina, E. (2016). Unsupervised Irony Detection: A Probabilistic Model with Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2016) - KDIR; ISBN 978-989-758-203-5; ISSN 2184-3228, SciTePress, pages 68-76. DOI: 10.5220/0006052000680076

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author={Debora Nozza. and Elisabetta Fersini. and Enza Messina.},
title={Unsupervised Irony Detection: A Probabilistic Model with Word Embeddings},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2016) - KDIR},
year={2016},
pages={68-76},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006052000680076},
isbn={978-989-758-203-5},
issn={2184-3228},
}

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2016) - KDIR
TI - Unsupervised Irony Detection: A Probabilistic Model with Word Embeddings
SN - 978-989-758-203-5
IS - 2184-3228
AU - Nozza, D.
AU - Fersini, E.
AU - Messina, E.
PY - 2016
SP - 68
EP - 76
DO - 10.5220/0006052000680076
PB - SciTePress