This study introduces the second release of the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Lexical
Sophistication (TAALES 2.0), a freely available and easy-to-use text analysis tool. TAALES …

Language, Creativity and Humour Online offers new insights into the creative linguistic
practices found in diverse digital contexts, such as social media platforms. It introduces new …

In recent years, a substantial effort has been made to develop sophisticated methods that
can be used to detect figurative language, and more specifically, irony and sarcasm. There …

In 1899, French poet Alcanter de Brahm proposed that ironists should use a specific
punctuation mark known as the ironic sign to guide their readers explicitly in an ironic …

Figurative language detection has always been a difficult task for human beings while being
a more difficult proposition, even if automated using text and data mining. The available …

With the advances in information and communication technologies, social media and
microblogging platforms serve as an important source of information. In microblogging …

Recognition of satirical language in social multimedia outlets turns out to be a trending
research area in computational linguistics. Many researchers have analyzed satirical …

Satire is a type of discourse commonly employed to mock or criticize a satirical target,
typically resulting in humor. Current understandings of satire place strong emphasis on the …

New parodic genres have emerged across diverse forms of digital media. Sometimes these
parodies take the form of mock “narratives of personal experience,” with authors drawing on …

The purpose of this study is to investigate how genres vary and figure out the factors that
generate genre variation. The quantitative multi-dimensional analysis is used to examine …