Abstract The increasing popularity of Twitter as a medium for sharing and debating scientific information brings forth questions about the type narratives emerging around environmental/climate change global warming. This article maps landscape how is used to communicate environmental issues in Turkey. It displays these actors can play crucial role constructing and/or de-constructing such crisis...

Sarcastic text is a type of that contains kind irony, in which negative expressions are expressed as positive by attributing meanings to words contradict their real during communication. During face-to-face communication, changes tone voice, body language, eye contact or word stress make it easier for the other person detect sarcastic expression. However, challenging only through machine learni...

Previous research suggests that intonation is a particularly challenging aspect of L2 speech learning. While most research focuses on speech production, we widen the focus and study the perception of intonation by L2 learners. We investigate whether advanced German learners of English have knowledge of the appropriate English intonation patterns in a narrative context with different sentence ty...

Computer-mediated communication in individuals with Asperger syndrome, Tourette syndrome and normal controls was explored with a program called Bubble Dialogue (Gray, Creighton, McMahon, and Cunninghamn (1991)) in which the users type text into speech bubbles. Two scenarios, based on Happé (1994) were adapted to investigate understanding of figure of speech and sarcasm, and a third, developed b...

Today, a considerable proportion of the public political discourse on nationwide elections proceeds in Online Social Networks. Through analyzing this content, we can discover the major themes that prevailed during the discussion, investigate the temporal variation of positive and negative sentiment and examine the semantic proximity of these themes. According to existing studies, the results of...

With the ever increasing acceptance of Online Social Networks (OSNs), a new dimension has evolved for communication amongst humans. People now share continuous streams of messages to contribute their interests, indications, discuss activities, status, latest trends and much more. This gives an opportunity to monitor and mine the opinions of a large number of online active population in real tim...

Introduction. The main task of this paper is to assess how emotions are expressed in sharing of information about a controversial topic, immigration, and how the emotional expressions vary by comment type. Method. A sample of 50 threads of conversation from a Finnish online discussion group focusing on issues of immigration was selected for the study. The dataset contains 2,312 messages submitt...

Sarcasm detection in conversation, a theoretically and practically challenging artificial intelligence task, aims to discover elusively ironic, contemptuous, metaphoric information implied daily conversations. Most of the recent approaches sarcasm have neglected intrinsic vagueness uncertainty human language emotional expression understanding. To address this gap, we propose complex-valued fuzz...

The conundrum of understanding and classifying sarcasm has been dealt with by the traditional theorists as an analysis of a sarcastic utterance and the ironic situation that surrounds it. The problem with such an approach is that it is too narrow, as it is unable to sufficiently utilize the two indispensable agents in making such an utterance, viz. the speaker and the listener. It undermines th...