We Usually Don’t Like Going to the Dentist: Using Common Sense to Detect Irony on Twitter
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عنوان ژورنال: Computational Linguistics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0891-2017,1530-9312
DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00337