Automatic recognition of rhetorical figures (similes, irony, sarcasm, humor, metaphors, etc.)
is increasingly used in natural language processing tasks, primarily to improve sentiment
classification, machine translation, but also analyzis of linguistic structures on different
levels. In this paper, we propose a method of automatic recognition and classification of
rhetorical figures from a group of tropes that uses ontological inference rules in an ontology
based on Serbian WordNet (SWN). A binary classification method was carried out on the …