This paper describes our contribution to the SemEval-2015 Task 11 on sentiment analysis of figurative language in Twitter. We considered two approaches, classification and regression, to provide fine-grained sentiment scores for a set of tweets that are rich in sarcasm, irony and metaphor. To this end, we combined a variety of standard lexical and syntactic features with specific features for c...

In this paper we propose a methodology for sentiment analysis of figurative language which applies Word Sense Disambiguation and, through an n-gram graph based method, assigns polarity to word senses. Polarity assigned to senses, combined with contextual valence shifters, is exploited for further assigning polarity to sentences, using Hidden Markov Models. Evaluation results using the corpus of...

In this paper, we investigate human visual perception and establish a body of ground truth data elicited from human visual studies. We aim to build on the formative work of Ren, Eakins and Briggs who produced an initial ground truth database. Human subjects were asked to draw and rank their perceptions of the parts of a series of figurative images. These rankings were then used to score the per...

the present article is about the zemakhshari’s al-kashaf commentary. in this book the author has paid a lot of attention to the literary aspects of quran.one of the most important aspects of this commentary is it’s lexical analysis of the words. the researcher then compares these analyses with those which exist in quran while providing reasons and explaining his views about them.

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As the top-down fabrication techniques for silicon-based electronic materials have reached the scale of molecular lengths, researchers have been investigating nanostructured materials to build electronics from individual molecules. Researchers have directed extensive experimental and theoretical efforts toward building functional optoelectronic devices using individual organic molecules and fab...