Beyond the imitation game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

A Srivastava, A Rastogi, A Rao, AAM Shoeb… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative
capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new …

A survey on computational metaphor processing

S Rai, S Chakraverty - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2020 - dl.acm.org
In the last decade, the problem of computational metaphor processing has garnered
immense attention from the domains of computational linguistics and cognition. A wide …

Data boost: Text data augmentation through reinforcement learning guided conditional generation

R Liu, G Xu, C Jia, W Ma, L Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Data augmentation is proven to be effective in many NLU tasks, especially for those
suffering from data scarcity. In this paper, we present a powerful and easy to deploy text …

Metaphors in pre-trained language models: Probing and generalization across datasets and languages

E Aghazadeh, M Fayyaz, Y Yaghoobzadeh - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Human languages are full of metaphorical expressions. Metaphors help people understand
the world by connecting new concepts and domains to more familiar ones. Large pre-trained …

A survey on pragmatic processing techniques

R Mao, M Ge, S Han, W Li, K He, L Zhu, E Cambria - Information Fusion, 2025 - Elsevier
Pragmatics, situated in the domains of linguistics and computational linguistics, explores the
influence of context on language interpretation, extending beyond the literal meaning of …

Does GPT-3 grasp metaphors? identifying metaphor mappings with generative language models

L Wachowiak, D Gromann - … of the 61st Annual Meeting of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Conceptual metaphors present a powerful cognitive vehicle to transfer knowledge structures
from a source to a target domain. Prior neural approaches focus on detecting whether …

Modelling the interplay of metaphor and emotion through multitask learning

V Dankers, M Rei, M Lewis… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
Metaphors allow us to convey emotion by connecting physical experiences and abstract
concepts. The results of previous research in linguistics and psychology suggest that …

A survey on computational metaphor processing techniques: From identification, interpretation, generation to application

M Ge, R Mao, E Cambria - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
Metaphors are figurative expressions frequently appearing daily. Given its significance in
downstream natural language processing tasks such as machine translation and sentiment …

MultiMET: A multimodal dataset for metaphor understanding

D Zhang, M Zhang, H Zhang, L Yang… - Proceedings of the 59th …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Metaphor involves not only a linguistic phenomenon, but also a cognitive phenomenon
structuring human thought, which makes understanding it challenging. As a means of …

Affective computing in the era of large language models: A survey from the nlp perspective

Y Zhang, X Yang, X Xu, Z Gao, Y Huang, S Mu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Affective Computing (AC), integrating computer science, psychology, and cognitive science
knowledge, aims to enable machines to recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions …