Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, printed single-sided, grade: 1,0, Saarland University (Computerlinguistik), course: Computational Approaches to Creative Language, language: English, abstract: Human communication often involves the use of irony. In many cases, it is far from obvious if an utterance is meant ironical or not. Context and world knowledge are needed to discriminate literal from ironic intent. Linguists have worked on describing the nature of irony and come up with ideas which reflect the intuitive understanding of irony. Parallely,...
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, printed single-sided, grade: 1,0, Saarland University (Computerlinguisti...