Science writers commonly use extended metaphors to communicate unfamiliar concepts in
a more accessible way to a wider audience. However, creating metaphors for science …

Automated metaphor detection is a challenging task to identify metaphorical expressions of
words in a sentence. To tackle this problem, we adopt pre-trained contextualized models …

Creative writing, from poetry to journalism, is at the crux of human ingenuity and social
interaction. Existing creative writing support tools produce entire passages or fully formed …

We explore a range of different metaphors used for Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) by
designers, end-users, manufacturers, and researchers using a novel framework derived …

Natural language inference (NLI) has been widely used as a task to train and evaluate
models for language understanding. However, the ability of NLI models to perform …

Generating metaphors is a challenging task as it requires a proper understanding of abstract
concepts, making connections between unrelated concepts, and deviating from the literal …

Metaphor is crucial in human cognition and creativity, facilitating abstract thinking,
analogical reasoning, and idea generation. Typically, human raters manually score the …

Creativity is an indispensable part of human cognition and also an inherent part of how we
make sense of the world. Metaphorical abstraction is fundamental in communicating creative …

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 …

As the community working on computational approaches to figurative language is growing
and as methods and data become increasingly diverse, it is important to create widely …