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Metaphors are ubiquitous in natural language, and their detection plays an essential role in many natural language processing tasks, such as language understanding, sentiment analysis, etc. Most existing approaches for metaphor detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Shashwat Aggarwal , Ramesh Singh

Metaphor as an advanced cognitive modality works by extracting familiar concepts in the target domain in order to understand vague and abstract concepts in the source domain. This helps humans to quickly understand and master new domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Cheng Yang , Zheng Li , Zhiyue Liu , Qingbao Huang

Metaphor detection, a critical task in natural language processing, involves identifying whether a particular word in a sentence is used metaphorically. Traditional approaches often rely on supervised learning models that implicitly encode…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yujie Lin , Jingyao Liu , Yan Gao , Ante Wang , Jinsong Su

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in metaphor interpretation across multiple datasets, tasks, and prompt configurations. Although metaphor processing has gained significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Elisa Sanchez-Bayona , Rodrigo Agerri

Metaphors play a significant role in our everyday communication, yet detecting them presents a challenge. Traditional methods often struggle with improper application of language rules and a tendency to overlook data sparsity. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kaidi Jia , Rongsheng Li

Metaphors are ubiquitous in human language. The metaphor detection task (MD) aims at detecting and interpreting metaphors from written language, which is crucial in natural language understanding (NLU) research. In this paper, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Weicheng Ma , Ruibo Liu , Lili Wang , Soroush Vosoughi

Despite significant progress of deep learning in recent years, state-of-the-art semantic matching methods still rely on legacy features such as SIFT or HoG. We argue that the strong invariance properties that are key to the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 David Novotny , Diane Larlus , Andrea Vedaldi

Most current approaches to metaphor identification use restricted linguistic contexts, e.g. by considering only a verb's arguments or the sentence containing a phrase. Inspired by pragmatic accounts of metaphor, we argue that broader…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jesse Mu , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

Distributed language representation has become the most widely used technique for language representation in various natural language processing tasks. Most of the natural language processing models that are based on deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Martina Toshevska , Frosina Stojanovska , Jovan Kalajdjieski

We propose a metaphor detection architecture that is structured around two main modules: an expectation component that estimates representations of literal word expectations given a context, and a realization component that computes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Oseremen O. Uduehi , Razvan C. Bunescu

Deep neural networks have become increasingly successful at solving classic perception problems such as object recognition, semantic segmentation, and scene understanding, often reaching or surpassing human-level accuracy. This success is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Joshua C. Peterson , Joshua T. Abbott , Thomas L. Griffiths

One noticeable trend in metaphor detection is the embrace of linguistic theories such as the metaphor identification procedure (MIP) for model architecture design. While MIP clearly defines that the metaphoricity of a lexical unit is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yucheng Li , Shun Wang , Chenghua Lin , Guerin Frank

Recent artificial neural networks that process natural language achieve unprecedented performance in tasks requiring sentence-level understanding. As such, they could be interesting models of the integration of linguistic information in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Sophie Arana , Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau , Peter Hagoort

This work presents a hierarchical deep learning natural language parser for fashion. Our proposal intends not only to recognize fashion-domain entities but also to expose syntactic and morphologic insights. We leverage the usage of an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-26 José Marcelino , João Faria , Luís Baía , Ricardo Gamelas Sousa

One of the major challenges that NLP faces is metaphor detection, especially by automatic means, a task that becomes even more difficult for languages lacking in linguistic resources and tools. Our purpose is the automatic differentiation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Eirini Florou , Konstantinos Perifanos , Dionysis Goutsos

Deep learning is a topic of considerable current interest. The availability of massive data collections and powerful software resources has led to an impressive amount of results in many application areas that reveal essential but hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Gianluigi Pillonetto , Aleksandr Aravkin , Daniel Gedon , Lennart Ljung , Antônio H. Ribeiro , Thomas B. Schön

Learning fine-grained image similarity is a challenging task. It needs to capture between-class and within-class image differences. This paper proposes a deep ranking model that employs deep learning techniques to learn similarity metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Jiang Wang , Yang song , Thomas Leung , Chuck Rosenberg , Jinbin Wang , James Philbin , Bo Chen , Ying Wu

Deep learning has been the mainstream technique in natural language processing (NLP) area. However, the techniques require many labeled data and are less generalizable across domains. Meta-learning is an arising field in machine learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Hung-yi Lee , Shang-Wen Li , Ngoc Thang Vu

Generating a description of an image is called image captioning. Image captioning requires to recognize the important objects, their attributes and their relationships in an image. It also needs to generate syntactically and semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Md. Zakir Hossain , Ferdous Sohel , Mohd Fairuz Shiratuddin , Hamid Laga

Human languages are full of metaphorical expressions. Metaphors help people understand the world by connecting new concepts and domains to more familiar ones. Large pre-trained language models (PLMs) are therefore assumed to encode…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ehsan Aghazadeh , Mohsen Fayyaz , Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh
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