Dearden, Edward and Baron, Alistair (2018) Lancaster at SemEval-2018 Task 3 : Investigating Ironic Features in English Tweets. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2018) :. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 587-593.
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Abstract
This paper describes the system we submitted to SemEval-2018 Task 3. The aim of the system is to distinguish between irony and non-irony in English tweets. We create a targeted feature set and analyse how different features are useful in the task of irony detection, achieving an F1-score of 0.5914. The analysis of individual features provides insight that may be useful in future attempts at detecting irony in tweets.