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.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.figlang-1.24
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Beata Beigman Klebanov, Ekaterina Shutova, Patricia Lichtenstein, Smaranda Muresan, Chee Wee, Anna Feldman, Debanjan Ghosh
- Venue:
- Fig-Lang
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 176–185
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.24
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.figlang-1.24
- Cite (ACL):
- Marta La Pietra and Francesca Masini. 2020. Oxymorons: a preliminary corpus investigation. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, pages 176–185, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Oxymorons: a preliminary corpus investigation (La Pietra & Masini, Fig-Lang 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/2020.figlang-1.24.pdf