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. ...

This tendency reflects egocentric distance. For example, the examples in (8) show the cognitive process of semantic extension from mouth as ‘facial organ’ (i.e. something concrete) to mouth as ‘talkativeness’ (i.e. something abstract). In sum, polysemy can be significant evidence which shows that experientialist epistemology really works in language users’ mind. In other words, the developing w...

Cognitive linguists have long been interested in analogies people habitually use in thinking and speaking, but little is known about the nature of the relationship between verbal behaviour and such analogical schemas. This article proposes that discourse metaphors are an important link between the two. Discourse metaphors are verbal expressions containing a construction that evokes an analogy n...

Unlike their English-speaking counterparts, Japanese children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (HFASDs) perform as well as typically developing (TD) children in comprehending metaphor, despite lacking 1st order theory of mind (ToM) reasoning. Additionally, although Japanese sarcasm and "indirect reproach" appear theoretically to need 2nd order ToM reasoning, HFASD children withou...

Speakers and listeners make use of a variety of pragmatic factors to produce and identify sarcastic statements. It is also possible that lexical factors play a role, although this possibility has not been investigated previously. College students were asked to read excerpts from published works that originally contained the phrase said sarcastically, although the word sarcastically was deleted....

According to an influential view of conceptual representation, action concepts are understood through motoric simulations, involving motor networks of the brain. A stronger version of this embodied account suggests that even figurative uses of action words (e.g., grasping the concept) are understood through motoric simulations. We investigated these claims by assessing whether Parkinson's disea...

Since Aristotle, people have believed that metaphors and similes express the same type of figurative meaning, despite the fact that they are expressed with different sentence patterns. In contrast, recent psycholinguistic models have suggested that metaphors and similes may promote different comprehension processes. In this study, we investigated the neural substrates involved in the comprehens...

This paper deals with the cognitive study of conceptual field English language aphorism. The methodology analysis textual concepts has been proposed and applied for means verbalization concept WISDOM in aphorisms. Based on application English-language aphorisms, it can be stated that following constituents: 1) conceptual, scope which is much wider than reflected dictionaries: «wisdom possession...

During the last few years, the investigation of methodologies to automatically detect and characterise the figurative traits of textual contents has attracted a growing interest. Indeed, the capability to correctly deal with figurative language and more specifically with satire is fundamental to build robust approaches in several sub-fields of Artificial Intelligence including Sentiment Analysi...