IMPLI: Investigating NLI models' performance on figurative language

K Stowe, P Utama, I Gurevych - … of the 60th Annual Meeting of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
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 …

Translate meanings, not just words: Idiomkb's role in optimizing idiomatic translation with language models

S Li, J Chen, S Yuan, X Wu, H Yang, S Tao… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
To translate well, machine translation (MT) systems and general-purposed language models
(LMs) need a deep understanding of both source and target languages and cultures …

DiPlomat: a dialogue dataset for situated pragmatic reasoning

H Li, SC Zhu, Z Zheng - Advances in Neural Information …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The ability to discern and comprehend pragmatic meanings is a cornerstone of social and
emotional intelligence, referred to as pragmatic reasoning. Despite the strides made in the …

Getting BART to ride the idiomatic train: Learning to represent idiomatic expressions

Z Zeng, S Bhat - Transactions of the Association for Computational …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Idiomatic expressions (IEs), characterized by their non-compositionality, are an important
part of natural language. They have been a classical challenge to NLP, including pre-trained …

Computational Approaches to the Detection of Lesser-Known Rhetorical Figures: A Systematic Survey and Research Challenges

R Kühn, J Mitrović, M Granitzer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16674, 2024 - arxiv.org
Rhetorical figures play a major role in our everyday communication as they make text more
interesting, more memorable, or more persuasive. Therefore, it is important to …

[HTML][HTML] Vector representations of idioms in conversational systems

T Adewumi, F Liwicki, M Liwicki - Sci, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this study, we demonstrate that an open-domain conversational system trained on idioms
or figurative language generates more fitting responses to prompts containing idioms …

Spanning the spectrum of hatred detection: a Persian multi-label hate speech dataset with annotator rationales

Z Delbari, NS Moosavi, MT Pilehvar - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
With the alarming rise of hate speech in online communities, the demand for effective NLP
models to identify instances of offensive language has reached a critical point. However, the …

Is Less More? Quality, Quantity and Context in Idiom Processing with Natural Language Models

A Knietaite, A Allsebrook, A Minkov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Compositionality in language models presents a problem when processing idiomatic
expressions, as their meaning often cannot be directly derived from their individual parts …

Introducing Rhetorical Parallelism Detection: A New Task with Datasets, Metrics, and Baselines

S Bothwell, J DeBenedetto, T Crnkovich… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Rhetoric, both spoken and written, involves not only content but also style. One common
stylistic tool is $\textit {parallelism} $: the juxtaposition of phrases which have the same …

Figuratively Speaking: Authorship Attribution via Multi-Task Figurative Language Modeling

GA Katsios, N Sa, T Strzalkowski - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08218, 2024 - arxiv.org
The identification of Figurative Language (FL) features in text is crucial for various Natural
Language Processing (NLP) tasks, where understanding of the author's intended meaning …