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Making People Laugh like a Pro: Analysing Humor Through Stand-Up Comedy
The analysis of humor using computational tools has gained popularity in the past few years, and a lot of resources have been built for this purpose.
CorEDs: A Corpus on Eating Disorders
The high-level accuracy of both classifiers indicates that ED-related texts are separable from texts on similar topics that do not address EDs.
NewYeS: A Corpus of New Year’s Speeches with a Comparative Analysis
This paper introduces the NewYeS corpus, which contains the Christmas messages and New Year’s speeches held at the end of the year by the heads of state of different European countries (namely Denmark, France, Italy, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom).
DecOp: A Multilingual and Multi-domain Corpus For Detecting Deception In Typed Text
For filling this gap, in this paper we introduce DecOp (Deceptive Opinions), a new language resource developed for automatic deception detection in cross-domain and cross-language scenarios.
VROAV: Using Iconicity to Visually Represent Abstract Verbs
For a long time, philosophers, linguists and scientists have been keen on finding an answer to the mind-bending question {``}what does abstract language look like?
EmoEvent: A Multilingual Emotion Corpus based on different Events
We report some linguistic statistics about the data set in order to observe the difference between English and Spanish speakers when they express emotions related to the same events.
Anglicized Words and Misspelled Cognates in Native Language Identification
In this paper, we present experiments that estimate the impact of specific lexical choices of people writing in a second language (L2).
Personality Traits Recognition in Literary Texts
Interesting stories often are built around interesting characters.
A Computational Exploration of Exaggeration
Several NLP studies address the problem of figurative language, but among non-literal phenomena, they have neglected exaggeration.
The Role of Emotions in Native Language Identification
We explore the hypothesis that emotion is one of the dimensions of language that surfaces from the native language into a second language.
Punctuation as Native Language Interference
In this paper, we describe experiments designed to explore and evaluate the impact of punctuation marks on the task of native language identification.
Word Etymology as Native Language Interference
We present experiments that show the influence of native language on lexical choice when producing text in another language {--} in this particular case English.
CIC-FBK Approach to Native Language Identification
We present the CIC-FBK system, which took part in the Native Language Identification (NLI) Shared Task 2017.
Improving Native Language Identification by Using Spelling Errors
We note that character n-grams from misspelled words are very indicative of the native language of the author.
To Sing like a Mockingbird
Musical parody, i. e. the act of changing the lyrics of an existing and very well-known song, is a commonly used technique for creating catchy advertising tunes and for mocking people or events.
A Computational Analysis of the Language of Drug Addiction
We present a computational analysis of the language of drug users when talking about their drug experiences.
Innovative Semi-Automatic Methodology to Annotate Emotional Corpora
Detecting depression or personality traits, tutoring and student behaviour systems, or identifying cases of cyber-bulling are a few of the wide range of the applications, in which the automatic detection of emotion is a crucial element.
PROMETHEUS: A Corpus of Proverbs Annotated with Metaphors
Proverbs are commonly metaphoric in nature and the mapping across domains is commonly established in proverbs.
Why Do Urban Legends Go Viral?
In particular we will focus on the idea that urban legends should mimic the details of news (who, where, when) to be credible, while they should be emotional and readable like a fairy tale to be catchy and memorable.
Echoes of Persuasion: The Effect of Euphony in Persuasive Communication
While the effect of various lexical, syntactic, semantic and stylistic features have been addressed in persuasive language from a computational point of view, the persuasive effect of phonetics has received little attention.
Mapping WordNet Domains, WordNet Topics and Wikipedia Categories to Generate Multilingual Domain Specific Resources
In this paper we present the mapping between WordNet domains and WordNet topics, and the emergent Wikipedia categories.
Creative language explorations through a high-expressivity N-grams query language
In computation linguistics a combination of syntagmatic and paradigmatic features is often exploited.
Enriching the ``Senso Comune'' Platform with Automatically Acquired Data
This paper reports on research activities on automatic methods for the enrichment of the Senso Comune platform.
NgramQuery - Smart Information Extraction from Google N-gram using External Resources
This paper describes the implementation of a generalized query language on Google Ngram database.
A Parallel Corpus of Music and Lyrics Annotated with Emotions
In this paper, we introduce a novel parallel corpus of music and lyrics, annotated with emotions at line level.
Brand Pitt: A Corpus to Explore the Art of Naming
The name of a company or a brand is the key element to a successful business.
