Figurative Language on Maya Angelou selected Poetries

Computational approaches to figurative language

concepts that are associated with the same source domain are often related to each other in the way we conceptualise them, but their meanings are not necessarily synonymous or even semantically close. Compare, for example, the target concepts MARRIAGE and POLITICAL REGIME. Although not directly related in semantic space, they are both metaphorically mapped to the source concept of MECHANISM (e....

Computational Approaches to Figurative Language

The heading figurative language subsumes multiple phenomena that can be used to perform most linguistic functions including predication, modification, and reference. Figurative language can tap into conceptual and linguistic knowledge (as in the case of idioms, metaphor, and some metonymies) as well as evoke pragmatic factors in interpretation (as in indirect speech acts, humor, irony, or sarca...

Figurative Language, Language Disorders, and Language(s) Evolution

CPH: Sentiment analysis of Figurative Language on Twitter #easypeasy #not

This paper describes the details of our system submitted to the SemEval 2015 shared task on sentiment analysis of figurative language on Twitter. We tackle the problem as regression task and combine several base systems using stacked generalization (Wolpert, 1992). An initial analysis revealed that the data is heavily biased, and a general sentiment analysis system (GSA) performs poorly on it. ...

The Impact of Figurative Language on Sentiment Analysis

Figurative language such as irony, sarcasm, and metaphor is considered a significant challenge in sentiment analysis. These figurative devices can sculpt the affect of an utterance and test the limits of sentiment analysis of supposedly literal texts. We explore the effect of figurative language on sentiment analysis. We incorporate the figurative language indicators into the sentiment analysis...