Metaphor is a special linguistic phenomenon, challenging diverse natural language
processing tasks. Previous works focused on either metaphor identification or domain …

Pragmatics, situated in the domains of linguistics and computational linguistics, explores the
influence of context on language interpretation, extending beyond the literal meaning of …

Chinese FrameNet (CFN) is a scenario commonsense knowledge base (CKB) that plays an
important role in research on Chinese language understanding. It is based on the theory of …

Metaphors are figurative expressions frequently appearing daily. Given its significance in
downstream natural language processing tasks such as machine translation and sentiment …

Word embeddings are vectorial semantic representations built with either counting or
predicting techniques aimed at capturing shades of meaning from word co-occurrences …

Metaphor detection is a challenging task in figurative language processing, which aims to
distinguish between metaphorical and literal expressions in text. Existing methods tackle …

Correct natural language understanding requires computers to distinguish the literal and
metaphorical senses of a word. Recent neu-ral models achieve progress on verb metaphor …

Understanding the nature of meaning and its extensions (with metaphor as one typical kind)
has been one core issue in figurative language study since Aristotle's time. This research …

Metaphors are ubiquitous in natural language, and detecting them requires contextual
reasoning about whether a semantic incongruence actually exists. Most existing work …

The majority of studies on detecting idiomatic expressions have focused on discovering
potentially idiomatic expressions overlooking the context. However, many idioms like blow …