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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 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

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

One-hot labels do not represent soft decision boundaries among concepts, and hence, models trained on them are prone to overfitting. Using soft labels as targets provide regularization, but different soft labels might be optimal at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Nidhi Vyas , Shreyas Saxena , Thomas Voice

Traditional neural topic models are typically optimized by reconstructing the document's Bag-of-Words (BoW) representations, overlooking contextual information and struggling with data sparsity. In this work, we propose a novel approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Raymond Li , Amirhossein Abaskohi , Chuyuan Li , Gabriel Murray , Giuseppe Carenini

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

Recent deep neural networks (DNNs) can easily overfit to biased training data with noisy labels. Label correction strategy is commonly used to alleviate this issue by designing a method to identity suspected noisy labels and then correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yichen Wu , Jun Shu , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

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

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

Noisy labels are ubiquitous in real-world datasets, especially in the large-scale ones derived from crowdsourcing and web searching. It is challenging to train deep neural networks with noisy datasets since the networks are prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yangdi Lu , Wenbo He

Prompting method is regarded as one of the crucial progress for few-shot nature language processing. Recent research on prompting moves from discrete tokens based ``hard prompts'' to continuous ``soft prompts'', which employ learnable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Yutai Hou , Hongyuan Dong , Xinghao Wang , Bohan Li , Wanxiang Che

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

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

Soft labels in image classification are vector representations of an image's true classification. In this paper, we investigate soft labels in the context of satellite object detection. We propose using detections as the basis for a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Matthew Ciolino , Grant Rosario , David Noever

Soft labels generated by teacher models have become a dominant paradigm for knowledge transfer and recent large-scale dataset distillation such as SRe2L, RDED, LPLD, offering richer supervision than conventional hard labels. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jiacheng Cui , Bingkui Tong , Xinyue Bi , Xiaohan Zhao , Jiacheng Liu , Zhiqiang Shen

In supervised machine learning, models are typically trained using data with hard labels, i.e., definite assignments of class membership. This traditional approach, however, does not take the inherent uncertainty in these labels into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Sjoerd de Vries , Dirk Thierens

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

This paper describes a method of domain adaptive training for semantic segmentation using multiple source datasets that are not necessarily relevant to the target dataset. We propose a soft pseudo-label generation method by integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Shigemichi Matsuzaki , Hiroaki Masuzawa , Jun Miura

As an algorithmic framework for learning to learn, meta-learning provides a promising solution for few-shot text classification. However, most existing research fail to give enough attention to class labels. Traditional basic framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Guanghua Hou , Shuhui Cao , Deqiang Ouyang , Ning Wang

Emotion recognition in conversation, which aims to predict the emotion for all utterances, has attracted considerable research attention in recent years. It is a challenging task since the recognition of the emotion in one utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ting Zhang , Zhuang Chen , Ming Zhong , Tieyun Qian
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