Perceiving Irony in Music

Perceiving temporal regularity in music

The Apolitical Irony of Generation Mash-Up: A Cultural Case Study in Popular Music

The mash-up remix rose to prominence in the early 2000s, spawning fans, amateur participants, and a small social movement. This paper culturally analyzes the influences on and implications of the mash-up phenomenon. By conducting a close reading of press articles and several interviews and textually analyzing some of the most popular and critically acclaimed tracks, I argue that the mash-up is ...

Explaining irony

1. Traditional approaches to irony Here are some typical examples of verbal irony: (1) Mary (after a boring party): That was fun. (2) I left my bag in the restaurant, and someone kindly walked off with it. (3) Sue (to someone who has done her a disservice): I can't thank you enough. In each case, the point of the irony is to indicate that a proposition the speaker might otherwise be taken to en...

Lake irony

Kenya over the last few decades, and the change from a nomadic lifestyle to communally owned ranches, wildlife in the Samburu District is under threat from deforestation, land degradation, overgrazing by livestock, and unsustainable water use. Alexander Njue, who is also involved in a separate Earthwatchsponsored project studying the wildlife habitats in this area, hopes that wildlife can also ...

Modelling Irony in Twitter

Computational creativity is one of the central research topics of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing today. Irony, a creative use of language, has received very little attention from the computational linguistics research point of view. In this study we investigate the automatic detection of irony casting it as a classification problem. We propose a model capable of detecti...