Is this an effective way to annotate irony activators?

Cignarella Alessandra Teresa

;Sanguinetti Manuela;Bosco Cristina;Rosso Paolo

2019-01-01

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Abstract

In this article we describe the first steps of the annotation process of specific irony activators in TWITTIRÒ-UD, a treebank of Italian tweets annotated with fine-grained labels for irony on one hand, and according to the Universal Dependencies scheme on the other. We discuss in particular the annotation scheme adopted to identify irony activators and some of the issues emerged during the first annotation phase. This helped us in the design of the guidelines and allowed us to draw future research directions.