#NonDicevoSulSerio at SemEval-2018 Task 3: Exploiting Emojis and Affective Content for Irony Detection in English Tweets

Endang Wahyu Pamungkas, Viviana Patti


Abstract
This paper describes the participation of the #NonDicevoSulSerio team at SemEval2018-Task3, which focused on Irony Detection in English Tweets and was articulated in two tasks addressing the identification of irony at different levels of granularity. We participated in both tasks proposed: Task A is a classical binary classification task to determine whether a tweet is ironic or not, while Task B is a multiclass classification task devoted to distinguish different types of irony, where systems have to predict one out of four labels describing verbal irony by clash, other verbal irony, situational irony, and non-irony. We addressed both tasks by proposing a model built upon a well-engineered features set involving both syntactic and lexical features, and a wide range of affective-based features, covering different facets of sentiment and emotions. The use of new features for taking advantage of the affective information conveyed by emojis has been analyzed. On this line, we also tried to exploit the possible incongruity between sentiment expressed in the text and in the emojis included in a tweet. We used a Support Vector Machine classifier, and obtained promising results. We also carried on experiments in an unconstrained setting.
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S18-1106
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Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
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June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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SemEval | *SEM
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SIGLEX | SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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649–654
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https://aclanthology.org/S18-1106
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S18-1106
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Endang Wahyu Pamungkas and Viviana Patti. 2018. #NonDicevoSulSerio at SemEval-2018 Task 3: Exploiting Emojis and Affective Content for Irony Detection in English Tweets. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 649–654, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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#NonDicevoSulSerio at SemEval-2018 Task 3: Exploiting Emojis and Affective Content for Irony Detection in English Tweets (Pamungkas & Patti, SemEval-*SEM 2018)
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