English. In this paper we describe our work concerning the application of a multi-layered scheme for the fine-grained annotation of irony (Karoui et al., 2017) on a new Italian social media corpus. In applying the annotation on this corpus containing tweets, i.e. TWITTIRÒ, we outlined both strengths and weaknesses of the scheme when applied on Italian, thus giving further clarity on the future ...

English. In this paper, we present a preliminary study on the style of headlines in order to evaluate the correlation between linguistic features and newsworthiness. Our hypothesis is that each particular linguistic form or stylistic variation can be motivated by the purpose of encoding a certain newsworthiness value. To discover the correlations between newsworthiness and linguistic features, ...

La programación genética (PG) es una técnica de aprendizaje automático que se basa en la evolución de programas de ordenador mediante un algoritmo genético. Una versión avanzada de la PG intenta aprovechar las regularidades de los dominios a resolver aprendiendo simultáneamente subrutinas que codifiquen dichas regularidades. Dicha versión, denominada ADF (definición automática de funciones) per...

Dealing with the periodisation and current development of capitalism, this paper starts with a theoretical and historical assessment of imperialism in its Leninist conception. It is argued that the current developments and the rising globalisation of capitalism lead to a dialectical supersession of imperialism. Based on contemporary economic conditions and the current discussion regarding inter...

Resumen La ambigüedad estructural es uno de los problemas más difíciles de resolver en sistemas de procesamiento de lenguaje natural. Consideramos dos tipos de resolución de ambigüedad estructural que pueden emplearse en el análisis de textos sin restricciones: conocimiento léxico y cierta clase de contexto. En este trabajo, proponemos un modelo basado en tres diferentes mecanismos para revelar...