The frequent usage of figurative language on online social networks, especially on Twitter,
has the potential to mislead traditional sentiment analysis and recommender systems. Due …

In this work, we present the Language Computer Corporation (LCC) annotated metaphor
datasets, which represent the largest and most comprehensive resource for metaphor …

Machine-in-the-loop writing aims to enable humans to collaborate with models to complete
their writing tasks more effectively. Prior work has found that providing humans a machine …

Conceptual metaphor research has benefited from advances in discourse analytic and
corpus linguistic methodologies over the years, especially given recent developments with …

Metaphor is a central phenomenon of language, and thus a central problem for natural
language understanding. Previous work on the analysis of metaphors has identified which …

Open source indicators (OSI) like social media are useful for detecting and forecasting the
onset and progression of political events and mass movements such as elections and civil …

The paper investigates the relation between metaphoricity and distributional characteristics
of verbs, introducing POM, a corpus-derived index that can be used to define the upper …

This article considers how cultural understanding is being brought into the work of the
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), through an analysis of its …

In such verb-noun combinations as draw a conclusion, lend support, take a step, the verb
acquires a meaning different from its typical meaning usually represented by the first sense …