We considered as starting point for this work the scheme provided in (Karoui et al., 2017), which was initially applied to a set of 400 Italian tweets.
we would like to highlight how the complexity of a pragmatic device such as irony, also attested in literature (Grice, 1975;Grice, 1978;Sperber and Wilson, 1981;Wilson and Sperber, 2007;Reyes et al., 2010;Fink et al., 2011;Reyes et al., 2012), makes the annotation task particularly challenging, as will be discussed in a deep analysis of the disagreement between the native Italian speakers involved in the development of the resource.