In recent years, some methods of sentiment analysis have been developed for the health domain; however, the diabetes domain has not been explored yet. In addition, there is a lack of approaches that analyze the positive or negative orientation of each aspect contained in a document (a review, a piece of news, and a tweet, among others). Based on this understanding, we propose an aspect-level sentiment analysis method based on ontologies in the diabetes domain. The sentiment of the aspects is calculated by considering the words around the aspect which are obtained through N-gram methods (N-gram after, N-gram before, and N-gram around). To evaluate the effectiveness of our method, we obtained a corpus from Twitter, which has been manually labelled at aspect level as positive, negative, or neutral. The experimental results show that the best result was obtained through the N-gram around method with a precision of 81.93%, a recall of 81.13%, and an F-measure of 81.24%.

In recent years, a substantial effort has been made to develop sophisticated methods that can be used to detect figurative language, and more specifically, irony and sarcasm. There is, however, an absence of new approaches and research works that analyze satirical texts. The recognition of satire by sentiment analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications is extremely important because it can influence and change the meaning of a statement in varied and complex ways. We used this understanding as a basis to propose a method that employs a wide variety of psycholinguistic features and which detects satirical and non-satirical text. We then went on to train a set of machine learning algorithms that would enable us to classify unknown data. Finally, we conducted several experiments in order to detect the most relevant features that generate a better pattern as regards detecting satirical texts. We evaluated the effectiveness of our method by obtaining a corpus of satirical and non-satirical news from Mexican and Spanish twitter accounts. Our proposal obtained encouraging results, with an F-measure of 85.5% for Mexico and one of 84.0% for Spain. Moreover, the results of the experiment showed that there is no significant difference between Mexican and Spanish satire

With the rapid increase in the world’s population, there is an ever-growing need for a sustainable food supply. Agriculture is one of the pillars for worldwide food provisioning, with fruits and vegetables being essential for a healthy diet. However, in the last few years the worldwide dispersion of virulent plant pests and diseases has caused significant decreases in the yield and quality of crops, in particular fruit, cereal and vegetables. Climate change and the intensification of global trade flows further accentuate the issue. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an approach to pest control that aims at maintaining pest insects at tolerable levels, keeping pest populations below an economic injury level. Under these circumstances, the early identification of pests and diseases becomes crucial. In this work, we present the first step towards a fully fledged, semantically enhanced decision support system for IPM. The ultimate goal is to build a complete agricultural knowledge base by gathering data from multiple, heterogeneous sources and to develop a system to assist farmers in decision making concerning the control of pests and diseases. The pest classifier framework has been evaluated in a simulated environment, obtaining an aggregated accuracy of 98.8%.