This paper describes the system used by the ValenTo team in the Task 11, Sentiment Analysis of Figurative Language in Twitter, at SemEval 2015. Our system used a regression model and additional external resources to assign polarity values. A distinctive feature of our approach is that we used not only wordsentiment lexicons providing polarity annotations, but also novel resources for dealing wi...

We propose a pretense theory of irony based on suggestions by Grice and Fowler. In being ironic, the theory goes, a speaker is pretending to be an injudicious person speaking to an uninitiated audience; the speaker intends the addresses of the irony to discover the pretense and thereby see his or her attitude toward the speaker, the audience, and the utterance. The pretense theory, we argue, is...

Automatically detecting verbal irony (roughly, sarcasm) is a challenging task because ironists say something other than – and often opposite to – what they actually mean. Discerning ironic intent exclusively from the words and syntax comprising texts (e.g., tweets, forum posts) is therefore not always possible: additional contextual information about the speaker and/or the topic at hand is ofte...

A culture promoting a strong desire for romantic relationships can greatly influence feelings of romantic loneliness and of closeness. In this study, the authors hypothesized that when not in a romantic relationship, U.S. young adults experience greater degrees of romantic loneliness because of a high desire for romantic relationships, compared with Korean young adults. The authors also predict...

Empirical work about love has primarily considered the of one individual for another. This uses a novel method to study estimated types self and others based on passionate companionate theory, triangular theory. Two hundred fifty participants (161 females 89 males) rated self-estimates other’s estim...

Romantic relationship functioning has implications that extend beyond the romantic dyad. This study tests whether a key positive aspect of relationships, perceived partner responsiveness, can cross over from parents' relationships to children's health and well-being via parenting behavior. In sample 112 youth with asthma their primary caregivers, when caregivers higher responsiveness in relatio...