In this paper, we report on the shared task on metaphor identification on VU Amsterdam
Metaphor Corpus and on a subset of the TOEFL Native Language Identification Corpus. The …

Research on metaphorical language has shown ties between abstractness and emotionality
with regard to metaphoricity; prior work is however limited to the word and sentence levels …

Metaphorical expressions are widely present in natural language, which brings huge
challenges to various natural language processing tasks such as machine translation …

Given a specific discourse, which discourse properties trigger the use of metaphorical
language, rather than using literal alternatives? For example, what drives people to say" …

Detecting metaphors is challenging due to the subtle ontological differences between
metaphorical and non-metaphorical expressions. Neural networks have been widely …

We present new results for the problem of sequence metaphor labeling, using the recently
developed Visibility Embeddings. We show that concatenating such embeddings to the input …

Introduction Semantic relations are crucial in various cognitive processes, highlighting the
need to understand concept interactions and how such relations are represented in the …

Metaphors use words from one domain of knowledge to describe another, which can make
the meaning less clear and require human interpretation to understand. This makes it …

Metaphors are linguistic expressions using comparison with another concept to potentially
improve the language expressivity. Due to relevant downstream applications, metaphor …

Many tasks can benefit from the use of multimodal resources, such as vision-
languagedatasets, which include images along with textual pieces of information. A common …