The paper is devoted to construction of a sentence corpus annotated by the general sentiment into 4 classes (positive, negative, neutral, and mixed), phrasemes 3 neutral), sentences presence or absence irony. annotation was done volunteers within project “Prepare texts for algorithms” on portal “People science”. existing knowledge domain regarding each task basis develop guidelines annotators. ...

Kenya over the last few decades, and the change from a nomadic lifestyle to communally owned ranches, wildlife in the Samburu District is under threat from deforestation, land degradation, overgrazing by livestock, and unsustainable water use. Alexander Njue, who is also involved in a separate Earthwatchsponsored project studying the wildlife habitats in this area, hopes that wildlife can also ...

This paper presents a formal semantics of verbal irony in assertions. In particular, it makes precise what is meant by the common intuition that an ironic utterance expresses the opposite of its literal meaning. We start by considering cases of verbal irony that are marked by a particular prosodic tune in English. We then demonstrate that an extant model for intonational meaning can be extended...

Computational creativity is one of the central research topics of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing today. Irony, a creative use of language, has received very little attention from the computational linguistics research point of view. In this study we investigate the automatic detection of irony casting it as a classification problem. We propose a model capable of detecti...

In the humanist philosophy of Richard Rorty, existence and concept nihilism is used to scrutinize theory irony. Nihilism humanitarian crisis cruelty underpin Rorty’s philosophical thinking. One his basic ideas how humans have a particular attitude in perceiving reality, which can be found terms This term provides grounding for coping with issues present day, this regard functioning as frame und...

To increase the likelihood of success of their market-focused innovations, firms that develop innovations for targeted markets regularly communicate with market participants in order to reduce the uncertainties participants hold regarding the firms’ innovations. Among other tactics, these firms employ strategic market signals. The paper develops three types of uncertainty (technical, market and...

The study reported herein explored the comprehension of metaphor and irony in schizophrenia during remission, and examined the role of IQ and a theory of mind. Performance of 29 Schizophrenic patients in remission and 22 healthy controls was compared on metaphor and irony comprehension tasks and first- and second-order theory of mind tasks. Participants' IQs were measured using the Wechsler Adu...

Deficits in pragmatic abilities have frequently been observed in patients with schizophrenia. The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between pragmatic deficits, ToM deficits and executive dysfunctions in schizophrenia. A group of 42 schizophrenic patients and 42 healthy controls were assessed on irony task (one type of pragmatic language), two subcomponents of ToM (cogni...

It is well known that speakers rely on prosodic and gestural features at the time of producing and understanding verbal irony. Yet little research has examined (a) how gestures manifest themselves in spontaneous speech, both during and after ironic utterances; and (b) how the presence of the so-called ‘gestural codas’ (audiovisual cues produced after the ironic utterance) influences irony detec...

Stylistic paths give the colorful meaning of discourse; therefore they are usually used in literal text. One them, is irony. Irony a type stylistic technique that will be investigated this article. The purpose article to find out some its types. Moreover, literary works, including irony, illustrated.