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Testing the Ability of Language Models to Interpret Figurative Language [PDF]
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 Figurative and metaphorical language are commonplace in discourse, and figurative expressions play an important role in communication and cognition. However, figurative language has been a relatively under-studied area in NLP, and it remains an open ...
Emmy Liu +3 more
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Figurative Language in Atypical Contexts: Searching for Creativity in Narco Language
Applied Sciences, 2022 Literal language is commonly defined in terms of direct meaning, i.e., any literal utterance must convey a unique meaning. Such meaning has to be the one conventionally accepted to guarantee a successful communication.
Antonio Reyes, Rafael Saldívar
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IRFL: Image Recognition of Figurative Language [PDF]
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 Figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, and idioms are integral parts of human communication. They are ubiquitous in many forms of discourse, allowing people to convey complex, abstract ideas and evoke emotion.
Ron Yosef, Yonatan Bitton, Dafna Shahaf
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CALR Linguistics Journal - Issue 15Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) has demonstrated significant advancements recently across various language tasks, including machine translation.
Yousef Sahari +6 more
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Processing figurative language: Evidence from native and non-native speakers of English. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 In recent research on figurative phrases, factors (e.g., familiarity, transparency, meaning, and decomposability) have played a significant influence on how native and non-native English speakers (various L1 and L1 Arabic) acquire, process, and ...
Alkhammash R.
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Multi-lingual and Multi-cultural Figurative Language Understanding [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 Figurative language permeates human communication, but at the same time is relatively understudied in NLP. Datasets have been created in English to accelerate progress towards measuring and improving figurative language processing in language models (LMs)
Anubha Kabra +8 more
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FLUTE: Figurative Language Understanding through Textual Explanations [PDF]
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022 Figurative language understanding has been recently framed as a recognizing textual entailment (RTE) task (a.k.a. natural language inference (NLI)). However, similar to classical RTE/NLI datasets they suffer from spurious correlations and annotation ...
Tuhin Chakrabarty +3 more
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The Elephant in the Room: A Systematic Review of Stimulus Control in Neuro-Measurement Studies on Figurative Language Processing. [PDF]
Front Hum Neurosci, 2021 The processing of metaphors and idioms has been the subject of neuroscientific research for several decades. However, results are often contradictory, which can be traced back to inconsistent terminology and stimulus control. In this systematic review of
Koller S, Müller N, Kauschke C.
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LMs stand their Ground: Investigating the Effect of Embodiment in Figurative Language Interpretation by Language Models [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 Figurative language is a challenge for language models since its interpretation is based on the use of words in a way that deviates from their conventional order and meaning. Yet, humans can easily understand and interpret metaphors, similes or idioms as
Philipp Wicke
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Figurative language processing in autism spectrum disorders: A review
Autism Research, 2023 Impairments in the broader domain of pragmatics are considered to be a defining feature of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). A challenging aspect of pragmatic competence is the ability to process nonliteral language.
Stella Lampri +3 more
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