Marta La Pietra


2020

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Oxymorons: a preliminary corpus investigation
Marta La Pietra | Francesca Masini
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing

This paper contains a preliminary corpus study of oxymorons, a figure of speech so far under-investigated in NLP-oriented research. The study resulted in a list of 376 oxymorons, identified by extracting a set of antonymous pairs (under various configurations) from corpora of written Italian and by manually checking the results. A complementary method is also envisaged for discovering contextual oxymorons, which are highly relevant for the detection of humor, irony and sarcasm.