Linguistic-based Patterns for Figurative Language Processing: The Case of Humor Recognition and Irony Detection

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Ph. D. thesis in Computer Science written by Antonio Reyes Pérez under the supervision of Dr. Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València). The thesis defense was done in Valencia (Spain) on July 2nd, 2012. The doctoral committee was integrated by the following doctors: Antónia Martí Antonín (University of Barcelona), Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp), Richard Anthony (Tony) Veale (University College Dublin), Carlo Strapparava (Fondazione Bruno Kessler FBK -IRST), and José Antonio Troyano Jiménez (University of Sevilla). The obtained grade was Cum Laude.