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This paper presents computational work to detect satire/sarcasm in long commentaries on Italian politics. It uses the lexica extracted from the manual annotation based on Appraisal Theory, of some 30 K word texts. The underlying hypothesis is that using this framework it is possible to precisely pinpoint ironic content through the deep semantic analysis of evaluative judgement and appreciation. The paper presents the manual annotation phase realized on 112 texts by two well-known Italian journalists. After a first experimentation phase based on the lexica extracted from the xml output files, we proceeded to retag lexical entries dividing them up into two subclasses: figurative and literal meaning. Finally more fine-grained Appraisal features have been derived and more experiments have been carried out and compared to results obtained by a lean sentiment analysis. The final output is produced from held out texts to verify the usefulness of the lexica and the Appraisal theory in detecting ironic content.

Bienen's chapter is a welcome contribution to an often neglected aspect of agricultural development policy in Africa. No worthwhile model of agricultural development fails to deal with the interaction of political, economic, and sociocultural variables, especially in connection with food grain production. Bienen concludes that ideology has not been an explanatory factor in the relations between governments and peasants across types of political systems. The experiences of Senegal, Tanzania, and Nigeria, including the political relationships involved, are examined. The overall impression left by the chapter is that violence and political instability are harmful to agricultural development. While this is true, it also would have been useful to recognize the role of violence and political instability in such countries as Namibia and South Africa and to recognize the underlying reasons why political violence occurs. Prescriptions on how to break the vicious cycle of violence once it has been set in motion would have been welcome. ; PR ; IFPRI1

"When people of good faith and sound mind disagree deeply about moral, religious, and other philosophical matters, how can we justify political institutions to all of them? The idea of public reason--of a shared public standard, despite disagreement--arose in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the work of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. At a time when John Rawls' influential theory of public reason has come under fire but its core idea remains attractive to many, it is important not to lose sight of earlier philosophers' answers to the problem of private conflict through public reason. The distinctive selections from the great social contract theorists in this volume emphasize the pervasive theme of intractable disagreement and the need for public justification. New essays by leading scholars then put the historical work in context and provide a focus of debate and discussion. They also explore how the search for public reason has informed a wider body of modern political theory--in the work of Hume, Hegel, Bentham, and Mill--sometimes in surprising ways. The idea of public reason is revealed as an overarching theme in modern political philosophy--one very much needed today."--Provided by publisher

Letter from Mrs. Elaine Williams to President Alvaro Obregón regarding the activities of the Mexican Service Bureau. She indicates that they manage all types of commercial and political information; they wish to be in charge of pro-Mexican advertising in the United States and establish a branch in Mexico City. / Carta de la Sra. Elaine Williams al Presidente Alvaro Obregón sobre las actividades del Mexican Service Bureau. Señala que manejan toda clase de información comercial y política; desean encargarse de la propaganda pro-México en Estados Unidos y establecer una sucursal en México, D.F.