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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant limitations in understanding creative content, as demonstrated by Hessel et al. (2023)'s influential work on the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest (NYCCC). Their study exposed a…

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Puns play a vital role in academic research due to their distinct structure and clear definition, which aid in the comprehensive analysis of linguistic humor. However, the understanding of puns in large language models (LLMs) has not been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhijun Xu , Siyu Yuan , Lingjie Chen , Deqing Yang

The language used in online forums differs in many ways from that of traditional language resources such as news. One difference is the use and frequency of nonliteral, subjective dialogue acts such as sarcasm. Whether the aim is to develop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Reid Swanson , Stephanie Lukin , Luke Eisenberg , Thomas Chase Corcoran , Marilyn A. Walker

Sentiment classification and sarcasm detection are both important natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Sentiment is always coupled with sarcasm where intensive emotion is expressed. Nevertheless, most literature considers them as two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Navonil Majumder , Soujanya Poria , Haiyun Peng , Niyati Chhaya , Erik Cambria , Alexander Gelbukh

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

We present a comprehensive evaluation of the ability of large language models (LLMs) to process culturally grounded language, specifically to understand and pragmatically use figurative expressions that encode local knowledge and cultural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mena Attia , Aashiq Muhamed , Mai Alkhamissi , Thamar Solorio , Mona Diab

Sarcasm is a complex form of figurative language in which the intended meaning contradicts the literal one. Its prevalence in social media and popular culture poses persistent challenges for natural language understanding, sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Aaron Scott , Maike Züfle , Jan Niehues

Neural-symbolic methods have demonstrated efficiency in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods mainly rely on syntactically mapping natural languages to complete formal languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yiming Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Pei Zhang , Baosong Yang , Rui Wang

Memes are a widely popular tool for web users to express their thoughts using visual metaphors. Understanding memes requires recognizing and interpreting visual metaphors with respect to the text inside or around the meme, often while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 EunJeong Hwang , Vered Shwartz

The prevalence of rapidly evolving slang, neologisms, and highly stylized expressions in informal user-generated text, particularly on Chinese social media, poses significant challenges for Machine Translation (MT) benchmarking.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Kaiyan Zhao , Zheyong Xie , Zhongtao Miao , Xinze Lyu , Yao Hu , Shaosheng Cao

Sarcasm detection is a significant challenge in sentiment analysis due to the nuanced and context-dependent nature of verbiage. We introduce Pragmatic Metacognitive Prompting (PMP) to improve the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Joshua Lee , Wyatt Fong , Alexander Le , Sur Shah , Kevin Han , Kevin Zhu

In Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), agents are designed with social capabilities, allowing them to understand and reason about social concepts such as norms when interacting with others (e.g., inter-robot interactions). In Normative MAS (NorMAS),…

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While pre-trained language models (LMs) have brought great improvements in many NLP tasks, there is increasing attention to explore capabilities of LMs and interpret their predictions. However, existing works usually focus only on a certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Yaozong Shen , Lijie Wang , Ying Chen , Xinyan Xiao , Jing Liu , Hua Wu

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

Multimodal punchlines, which involve humor or sarcasm conveyed in image-caption pairs, are a popular way of communication on online multimedia platforms. With the rapid development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Kun Ouyang , Yuanxin Liu , Shicheng Li , Yi Liu , Hao Zhou , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Understanding humor is a core aspect of social intelligence, yet it remains a significant challenge for Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). We introduce PixelHumor, a benchmark dataset of 2,800 annotated multi-panel comics designed to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuriel Ryan , Rui Yang Tan , Kenny Tsu Wei Choo , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Irony and sarcasm are two complex linguistic phenomena that are widely used in everyday language and especially over the social media, but they represent two serious issues for automated text understanding. Many labeled corpora have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Giosué Lo Bosco , Giovanni Pilato

Detecting arguments in online interactions is useful to understand how conflicts arise and get resolved. Users often use figurative language, such as sarcasm, either as persuasive devices or to attack the opponent by an ad hominem argument.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Debanjan Ghosh , Ritvik Shrivastava , Smaranda Muresan

Large language models (LLMs) excel in abstractive summarization tasks, delivering fluent and pertinent summaries. Recent advancements have extended their capabilities to handle long-input contexts, exceeding 100k tokens. However, in…

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Metaphor generation is a challenging task which can impact many downstream tasks such as improving user satisfaction with dialogue systems and story generation. This paper tackles the problem of Chinese nominal metaphor generation by…

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