Marta La Pietra author Francesca Masini author 2020-jul text Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication This paper contains a preliminary corpus study of oxymorons, a figure of speech so far under-investigated in NLP-oriented research. The study resulted in a list of 376 oxymorons, identified by extracting a set of antonymous pairs (under various configurations) from corpora of written Italian and by manually checking the results. A complementary method is also envisaged for discovering contextual oxymorons, which are highly relevant for the detection of humor, irony and sarcasm. la-pietra-masini-2020-oxymorons https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.figlang-1.24 2020-jul 176 185