GEORGE ELIOT wrote that "about the year 1829 the dark territories of pathology were a fine America for a spirited young adventurer." The adventurer was Lydgate, who had preferred Rasselas or Gulliver to the Bible or Bayle's dictionary until he discovered the medical profession, "the finest in the world, presenting the most perfect interchange between science and art, offering the most direct al...

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At some historical points, all classes and professions of a society, despite all the differences and disagreements, flow into one single stream to reach a higher goal. Iranians have had this historical experience many times throughout history: during the Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911), and also in the Islamic Revolution in 1979. In the Constitutional Revolution, all classes and professio...

We present an analytic study on the language of news media in the context of political fact-checking and fake news detection. We compare the language of real news with that of satire, hoaxes, and propaganda to find linguistic characteristics of untrustworthy text. To probe the feasibility of automatic political fact-checking, we also present a case study based on PolitiFact.com using their fact...

In the high-choice media landscape, satire has potential to help news and politics break through information apathy barriers reinvigorate democratic debate. While scholarly attention genre of increased, interest in satirists themselves been sparse. Using a theory non-deliberative forms public discourse idea role conceptions, this study presents an analysis interviews with Swedish working broadc...

Since 2019, both national and international media have started to report all the problems massively related Covid -19 pandemic. This shall bring a positive impact if information conveyed can be understood properly correctly by recipients of information, namely Indonesian people in general. In this case, concept implicature is very important, especially has an implied purpose. The purpose study ...

Humor is a highly-valued human skill — a sign of intelligence and creativity. Humor creation is a long-standing problem in Artificial Intelligence, because it does not easily decompose and it cannot readily be defined or detected; indeed, many humans cannot readily create jokes. However, in our survey of advice from professional comedians, we found evidence that the humor-generation process can...