A Computational Exploration of Exaggeration

Enrica Troiano, Carlo Strapparava, Gözde Özbal, Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu


Abstract
Several NLP studies address the problem of figurative language, but among non-literal phenomena, they have neglected exaggeration. This paper presents a first computational approach to this figure of speech. We explore the possibility to automatically detect exaggerated sentences. First, we introduce HYPO, a corpus containing overstatements (or hyperboles) collected on the web and validated via crowdsourcing. Then, we evaluate a number of models trained on HYPO, and bring evidence that the task of hyperbole identification can be successfully performed based on a small set of semantic features.
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D18-1367
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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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October-November
Year:
2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3296–3304
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https://aclanthology.org/D18-1367
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D18-1367
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Enrica Troiano, Carlo Strapparava, Gözde Özbal, and Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu. 2018. A Computational Exploration of Exaggeration. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 3296–3304, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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