Irony and Sarcasm Detection in Twitter: The Role of Affective Content

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PhD thesis in Computer Science written by Delia Irazú Hernández Farías under the supervision of Dr. Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politécnica de València) and Dra. Viviana Patti (University of Turin). This thesis was developed under a cotutelle between the Universitat Politécnica de València, Spain and the University of Turin, Italy. The thesis defense was done in Valencia, Spain on September 25, 2017. The doctoral committee was integrated by: Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Elisabetta Fersini (Universitá degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), and Roberto Basili (Univeritá di Roma Tor Vergata). The International mention was achieved after a 12 months internship at University of Turin.