In this paper, we describe the system we built for Task 11 of SemEval2015, which aims at identifying the sentiment intensity of figurative language in tweets. We use various features, including those specially concerned with the identification of irony and sarcasm. The features are evaluated through a decision tree regression model and a support vector regression model. The experiment result of...

Garrod & Pickering (2004) maintain that conversation is easy because automatic alignment at various levels occurs during conversation. Other related theories of alignment have also been proposed for emotional/mood coordination (Hatfield, Cacioppo, & Rapson, 1994). Many studies have evaluated alignment effects at various linguistic levels, but have not yet integrated pragmatic levels in these de...

Peter Bruegel is now famous as the creator of modern landscape painting, but during his lifetime he owed much of his reputation to the satire found in many of his paintings and most of his prints. From an account of the Low Countries by Guicciardini (Antwerp, 1567) we know that in his own day Bruegel was considered a "great imitator of the knowledge and fantasies of Jerome Bosch." Today his sat...