Irony in Emmanuel Carrère’s La moustache

Ironic Gestures and Tones in Twitter

English. Automatic irony detection is a young field of research related to Sentiment Analysis. When dealing with social media data, the shortness of text and the extraction of the statement from his context usually makes it hard to understand irony even for humans but especially for machines. In this paper we propose an analysis of the role that textual information plays in the perception and c...

Irony Detection: from the Twittersphere to the News Space

English. Automatic detection of irony is one of the hot topics for sentiment analysis, as it changes the polarity of text. Most of the work has been focused on the detection of figurative language in Twitter data due to relative ease of obtaining annotated data, thanks to the use of hashtags to signal irony. However, irony is present generally in natural language conversations and in particular...

Artistry and Irony in María de Zaya's La inocencia castigada

Premature Moustache As Presenting Symptom of Nonclassic Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia due to 2 Uncommon Mutations of the CYP21A2 Gene

A Turkish boy was referred at the age of 3 6/12 years for the evaluation of a premature moustache. No other signs of virilisation were present. The endocrine evaluation led to the diagnosis of nonclassic congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Genetic analysis revealed 2 rare mutations of the CYP21A2 gene, the gene encoding for the 21-hydroxylase enzyme: a recently reported R132C mutation in exon 3 and...

Tweet2Check evaluation at Evalita Sentipolc 2016

English. In this paper we present our Tweet2Check tool, provide an analysis of the experimental results obtained by our tool at the Evalita Sentipolc 2016 evaluation, and compare its performance with the state-of-the-art tools that participated to the evaluation. In the experimental analysis, we show that Tweet2Check is: (i) the second classified for the irony task, at a distance of just 0.0068...