In the framework of perspectivism, analyzing how people perceive pragmatic phenomena, like irony, is relevant for deeply understanding the different points of view, and for creating more robust perspective-aware models. This paper presents a linguistic analysis of irony perception in 11 perspectivist models. Each model is trained on annotations by crowd-sourcing workers different in gender, age, and nationalities. Due to the sparsity of the dataset, we examine the texts classified as ironic and not-ironic by these perspectivist models, and identify linguistic patterns that all perspectives associate with irony. To our knowledge, we are the first to also provide evidence for the different linguistic patterns perceived as ironic by a specific perspective. For example, models trained on data annotated by American and Australian annotators are more inclined to classify a text as ironic when it includes a negative sentiment, while models trained on data annotated by the youngest annotators are particularly influenced by words related to immoral behaviors. Warning: This paper could contain content that is offensive or upsetting for the reader.

Does Anyone see the Irony here? Analysis of Perspective-aware Model Predictions in Irony Detection

Frenda S.;Lo S. M.;Casola S.;Basile V.;
2023-01-01

Abstract

In the framework of perspectivism, analyzing how people perceive pragmatic phenomena, like irony, is relevant for deeply understanding the different points of view, and for creating more robust perspective-aware models. This paper presents a linguistic analysis of irony perception in 11 perspectivist models. Each model is trained on annotations by crowd-sourcing workers different in gender, age, and nationalities. Due to the sparsity of the dataset, we examine the texts classified as ironic and not-ironic by these perspectivist models, and identify linguistic patterns that all perspectives associate with irony. To our knowledge, we are the first to also provide evidence for the different linguistic patterns perceived as ironic by a specific perspective. For example, models trained on data annotated by American and Australian annotators are more inclined to classify a text as ironic when it includes a negative sentiment, while models trained on data annotated by the youngest annotators are particularly influenced by words related to immoral behaviors. Warning: This paper could contain content that is offensive or upsetting for the reader.
2023
Inglese
contributo
4 - Workshop
2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP, NLPerspectives 2023
Cracovia
10/2023
Internazionale
Abercrombie G., Basile V., Bernardi D., Dudy S., Frenda S., Havens L., Leonardelli E., Tonelli S.
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP co-located with 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023)
Esperti anonimi
CEUR-WS
online
POLONIA
3494
1
11
11
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3494/paper9.pdf
Irony Detection; Irony Interpretation; Linguistic Analysis; Perspectivism
no
4 – prodotto già presente in altro archivio Open Access (arXiv, REPEC…)
7
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
04-CONTRIBUTO IN ATTI DI CONVEGNO::04A-Conference paper in volume
Frenda S.; Lo S.M.; Casola S.; Scarlini B.; Marco C.; Basile V.; Bernardi D.
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