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Universality and Creativity: The Usage of Language in Gender and Irony

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Author profiling deals with distinguishing between classes of authors rather than individual authors on the basis of their usage of language. What is much more subjective in terms of usage of language is when authors employ irony as linguistic device. The aim of this paper is to introduce the reader to concepts such as universality of language among classes of authors, e.g. of the same gender, and creativity in irony.

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Notes

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    PAN Lab on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse: http://pan.webis.de.

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    http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling/.

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    http://wndomains.fbk.eu.

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    EmIroGeFB: http://ow.ly/uQWEs.

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    Given a set of tweets the task consist in determining whether the user has expressed a positive, negative or neutral sentiment; more information is available at: http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2015/task11/.

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    http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2015/task11.

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    We use Weka toolkit’s version of each classifier available at: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/dowloading.html.

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Acknowledgments

The research work was carried out in the VLC/CAMPUS Microcluster on Multimodal Interaction in Intelligent Systems in the framework of the SomEMBED TIN2015-71147-C2-1-P MINECO research project and under the Generalitat Valenciana grant ALMAMATER (PrometeoII/2014/030). The National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT-Mexico) has funded the research work of the second author (Grant No. 218109/313683, CVU-369616). The work of the third author was partially funded by Autoritas Consulting SA and by Ministerio de Economia de España under grant ECOPORTUNITY IPT-2012-1220-n430000.

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    Paolo Rosso, Delia Irazú Hernández Farías & Francisco Rangel

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Rosso, P., Hernández Farías, D.I., Rangel, F. (2016). Universality and Creativity: The Usage of Language in Gender and Irony. In: Degli Esposti, M., Altmann, E., Pachet, F. (eds) Creativity and Universality in Language. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24403-7_11

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