@inproceedings{la-pietra-masini-2020-oxymorons,
    title = "{O}xymorons: a preliminary corpus investigation",
    author = "La Pietra, Marta  and
      Masini, Francesca",
    editor = "Klebanov, Beata Beigman  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Lichtenstein, Patricia  and
      Muresan, Smaranda  and
      Wee, Chee  and
      Feldman, Anna  and
      Ghosh, Debanjan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2020.figlang-1.24/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.figlang-1.24",
    pages = "176--185",
    abstract = "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."
}