On the one hand, we approached the task of the annotation of figurative devices in order to evaluate in a real data set the suitability of a task known as very hard (Reyes and Rosso, 2014;Filatova, 2012;Reyes et al., 2013;Maynard and Greenwood, 2014).
we propose a semantic-oriented annotation assuming that it can give more precise hints about the conversational context, considering that often the meaning of a text varies according to the topic and, in the case of political debates, also according to the specific aspects discussed or to the author (e.g.