This analysis can be exploited in a purpose of automatic irony detection, which is progressively gaining relevance within sentiment analysis (Maynard and Greenwood, 2014;Ghosh et al., 2015).
it will bring out the most discriminant pragmatic features that need to be taken into account for an accurate irony detection, therefore helping systems improve beyond standard approaches that still heavily rely on features gleaned from the utterance-internal context Gonzalez-Ibanez et al., 2011;Liebrecht et al., 2013;Buschmeier et al., 2014;.