Copula constructions are problematic in the syntax of most languages. The paper describes three different dependency syntactic methods for handling copula constructions: function head, content head and complex label analysis. Furthermore, we also propose a POS-based approach to copula detection. We evaluate the impact of these approaches in computational parsing, in two parsing experiments for ...

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The paper introduces a new annotated French data set for Sentiment Analysis, which is a currently missing resource. It focuses on the collection from Twitter of data related to the socio-political debate about the reform of the bill for wedding in France. The design of the annotation scheme is described, which extends a polarity label set by making available tags for marking target semantic are...

Various text mining algorithms require the process of feature selection. High-level semantically rich features, such as figurative language uses, speech errors etc., are very promising for such problems as e.g. writing style detection, but automatic extraction of such features is a big challenge. In this paper, we propose a framework for figurative language use detection. This framework is base...

In this paper, we describe the approach used by the UPF-taln team for tasks 10 and 11 of SemEval 2015 that respectively focused on “Sentiment Analysis in Twitter” and “Sentiment Analysis of Figurative Language in Twitter”. Our approach achieved satisfactory results in the figurative language analysis task, obtaining the second best result. In task 10, our approach obtained acceptable performanc...

<p style="text-align: justify;">Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often limited in understanding spoken and written language. To make texts accessible for children ASD specialists use means that improve of verbal or information learning process more successful. The article discusses why have difficulties precepting textual information, example, poor vocabulary, ignorance wo...

The aim of this research was to analyze the poetry by Sapardi Djoko Damono on title “I Want” with a figurative language method. type descriptive qualitative and took data note poetry. collected analyzed taking several phrases results analysis poem "I Want" which written in 1989 has theme love Damono. Written meaning that is really simple, knowing true using method, along discussion. Therefore i...