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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

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

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

This paper presents ContrastWSD, a RoBERTa-based metaphor detection model that integrates the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) and Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) to extract and contrast the contextual meaning with the basic meaning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Mohamad Elzohbi , Richard Zhao

Identifying metaphors in text is very challenging and requires comprehending the underlying comparison. The automation of this cognitive process has gained wide attention lately. However, the majority of existing approaches concentrate on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Omnia Zayed , John P. McCrae , Paul Buitelaar

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

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

Linguists distinguish between novel and conventional metaphor, a distinction which the metaphor detection task in NLP does not take into account. Instead, metaphoricity is formulated as a property of a token in a sentence, regardless of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Rowan Hall Maudslay , Simone Teufel

Automated metaphor detection is a challenging task to identify metaphorical expressions of words in a sentence. To tackle this problem, we adopt pre-trained contextualized models, e.g., BERT and RoBERTa. To this end, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Minjin Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Eunseong Choi , Heesoo Park , Junhyuk Lee , Dongwon Lee , Jongwuk Lee

We present end-to-end neural models for detecting metaphorical word use in context. We show that relatively standard BiLSTM models which operate on complete sentences work well in this setting, in comparison to previous work that used more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Ge Gao , Eunsol Choi , Yejin Choi , Luke Zettlemoyer

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

In this paper, we propose a textual clue approach to help metaphor detection, in order to improve the semantic processing of this figure. The previous works in the domain studied the semantic regularities only, overlooking an obvious set of…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Stéphane Ferrari

State-of-the-art approaches for metaphor detection compare their literal - or core - meaning and their contextual meaning using metaphor classifiers based on neural networks. However, metaphorical expressions evolve over time due to various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Giorgio Ottolina , Matteo Palmonari , Mehwish Alam , Manuel Vimercati

Text-based hyperbole and metaphor detection are of great significance for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, due to their semantic obscurity and expressive diversity, it is rather challenging to identify them. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Li Zheng , Sihang Wang , Hao Fei , Zuquan Peng , Fei Li , Jianming Fu , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

Metaphor is a pervasive feature of discourse and a powerful lens for examining cognition, emotion, and ideology. Large-scale analysis, however, has been constrained by the need for manual annotation due to the context-sensitive nature of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Matteo Fuoli , Weihang Huang , Jeannette Littlemore , Sarah Turner , Ellen Wilding

The ubiquity of metaphor in our everyday communication makes it an important problem for natural language understanding. Yet, the majority of metaphor processing systems to date rely on hand-engineered features and there is still no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Marek Rei , Luana Bulat , Douwe Kiela , Ekaterina Shutova

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

We propose a benchmark to assess the capability of large language models to reason with conventional metaphors. Our benchmark combines the previously isolated topics of metaphor detection and commonsense reasoning into a single task that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Iulia-Maria Comsa , Julian Martin Eisenschlos , Srini Narayanan

We propose a novel RoBERTa-based model, RoPPT, which introduces a target-oriented parse tree structure in metaphor detection. Compared to existing models, RoPPT focuses on semantically relevant information and achieves the state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Shun Wang , Yucheng Li , Chenghua Lin , Loïc Barrault , Frank Guerin

Metaphors are part of everyday language and shape the way in which we conceptualize the world. Moreover, they play a multifaceted role in communication, making their understanding and generation a challenging task for language models (LMs).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Gianluca Michelli , Xiaoyu Tong , Ekaterina Shutova
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