Oxymorons: a preliminary corpus investigation

Marta La Pietra, Francesca Masini


Abstract
This paper contains a preliminary corpus study of oxymorons, a figure of speech so far under-investigated in NLP-oriented research. The study resulted in a list of 376 oxymorons, identified by extracting a set of antonymous pairs (under various configurations) from corpora of written Italian and by manually checking the results. A complementary method is also envisaged for discovering contextual oxymorons, which are highly relevant for the detection of humor, irony and sarcasm.
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2020.figlang-1.24
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing
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July
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2020
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Online
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Beata Beigman Klebanov, Ekaterina Shutova, Patricia Lichtenstein, Smaranda Muresan, Chee Wee, Anna Feldman, Debanjan Ghosh
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Fig-Lang
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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176–185
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.24
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.figlang-1.24
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Marta La Pietra and Francesca Masini. 2020. Oxymorons: a preliminary corpus investigation. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, pages 176–185, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Oxymorons: a preliminary corpus investigation (La Pietra & Masini, Fig-Lang 2020)
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