A Knowledge-Based Weighted KNN for Detecting Irony in Twitter

[EN] In this work, we propose a variant of a well-known instancebased algorithm: WKNN. Our idea is to exploit task-dependent features in order to calculate the weight of the instances according to a novel paradigm: the Textual Attraction Force, that serves to quantify the degree of relatedness betwe...

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Authors: Hernandez-Farias, Delia Irazu, Montes Gomez, Manuel, Escalante, Hugo, Patti, Viviana, Rosso, Paolo
Format: article
Publication Date:2018
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/146278
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/146278
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Instance-based algorithm
WKNN
Irony detection
LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS
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Summary:[EN] In this work, we propose a variant of a well-known instancebased algorithm: WKNN. Our idea is to exploit task-dependent features in order to calculate the weight of the instances according to a novel paradigm: the Textual Attraction Force, that serves to quantify the degree of relatedness between documents. The proposed method was applied to a challenging text classification task: irony detection. We experimented with corpora in the state of the art. The obtained results show that despite being a simple approach, our method is competitive with respect to more advanced techniques.