January 25, 2024 | BY debanjanghosh
Contact:
Debanjan Ghosh
Smaranda Muresan
Processing of figurative language is a rapidly growing area in NLP, including computational modeling of metaphors, idioms, puns, irony, sarcasm, simile, and other figures. Characteristic to all areas of human activity (from poetic, ordinary, scientific, social media) and, thus, to all types of discourse, figurative language becomes an important problem for NLP systems. Its ubiquity in language has been established in a number of corpus studies and the role it plays in human reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments.
August 30, 2022 | BY Anna Feldman
The workshop will be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this will be a hybrid (in-person and virtual) event.
Date: December 8, 2022
Venue: Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, Khaleej Al Arabi Street, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates / virtual
July 05, 2022 | BY Anna Feldman
Location:
United Arab Emirates /virtual
Contact:
Anna Feldman
Patrick Lee
Jing Peng
https://sites.google.com/view/figlang2022/shared-tasks?authuser=0
Euphemism Detection Shared Task
Euphemisms are mild or indirect expressions used in place of harsher or more offensive ones. Euphemisms are often used to mask profanity or refer to taboo topics such as death, disability, sex, religion or personal relationships in a polite way. Euphemisms are often ambiguous: their literal and non-literal interpretation is context-dependent:
June 14, 2022 | BY Beata Beigman Klebanov
Contact:
Debanjan Ghosh
Beata Beigman Klebanov
Smaranda Muresan
Anna Feldman
Soujanya Poria
Tuhin Chakrabarty
January 16, 2018 | BY Beata Beigman Klebanov
Contact:
Ben Leong
Beata Beigman Klebanov
Call for Participation
This is the last call for participation in a shared task on metaphor detection held at the workshop on processing figurative language @NAACL2018.
Metaphor is a commonly used form of figurative language. Consider, for example: "In Washington, people change dance partners frequently, but not the dance" (metaphors are italicized). The goal is to classify all content words in a text as being a metaphor or not, as well as a separate classification task just for the verbs.
December 08, 2017 | BY Beata Beigman Klebanov
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
NAACL 2018 Workshop on Figurative Language Processing
including a shared task on metaphor detection
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – June 5 or 6, 2018
https://sites.google.com/site/figlangworkshop/
Submission deadline: March 12, 2018
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
December 13, 2014 | BY adg
Event Dates:
20 Apr 2015 to 22 Apr 2015
Contact:
Dr. Andrew Gargett (University of Birmingham)
Professor John Barnden (University of Birmingham)
8th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy:
"The Significance of Metaphor and Other Figurative Modes of Expression
and Thought"
A symposium of the Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of
Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
20-22nd April 2015
University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
The Symposium will occupy up to two days at some point within the
three days of the Convention.
For more detail, inlcuding the newly-formed Programme Committee:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~gargetad/AISB-CP-2015.html