In the last decade, the problem of computational metaphor processing has garnered
immense attention from the domains of computational linguistics and cognition. A wide …

Metaphor is not only a linguistic phenomenon but also reflects the concept projection
between source and target domains in human cognition. Previous sequence tagging-based …

This report summarizes the objectives and evaluation of the SemEval 2015 task on the
sentiment analysis of figurative language on Twitter (Task 11). This is the first sentiment …

Metaphor is pervasive in our communication, which makes it an important problem for
natural language processing (NLP). Numerous approaches to metaphor processing have …

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 …

We show that it is possible to reliably discriminate whether a syntactic construction is meant
literally or metaphorically using lexical semantic features of the words that participate in the …

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 highly frequent in language, which makes its computational processing
indispensable for real-world NLP applications addressing semantic tasks. Previous …

The literary imagination may take flight on the wings of metaphor, but hard-headed scientists
are just as likely as doe-eyed poets to reach for a metaphor when the descriptive need …

Idiomatic expressions are an integral part of natural language and constantly being added to
a language. Owing to their non-compositionality and their ability to take on a figurative or …