A survey on automatic generation of figurative language: From rule-based systems to large language models

H Lai, M Nissim - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Figurative language generation (FLG) is the task of reformulating a given text to include a
desired figure of speech, such as a hyperbole, a simile, and several others, while still being …

The perils of using Mechanical Turk to evaluate open-ended text generation

M Karpinska, N Akoury, M Iyyer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.06835, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recent text generation research has increasingly focused on open-ended domains such as
story and poetry generation. Because models built for such tasks are difficult to evaluate …

Metaphorian: leveraging large language models to support extended metaphor creation for science writing

J Kim, S Suh, LB Chilton, H Xia - … of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Science writers commonly use extended metaphors to communicate unfamiliar concepts in
a more accessible way to a wider audience. However, creating metaphors for science …

Metaclue: Towards comprehensive visual metaphors research

AR Akula, B Driscoll, P Narayana… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Creativity is an indispensable part of human cognition and also an inherent part of how we
make sense of the world. Metaphorical abstraction is fundamental in communicating creative …

MERMAID: Metaphor generation with symbolism and discriminative decoding

T Chakrabarty, X Zhang, S Muresan, N Peng - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
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 …

I spy a metaphor: Large language models and diffusion models co-create visual metaphors

T Chakrabarty, A Saakyan, O Winn… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Visual metaphors are powerful rhetorical devices used to persuade or communicate creative
ideas through images. Similar to linguistic metaphors, they convey meaning implicitly …

Generating similes effortlessly like a pro: A style transfer approach for simile generation

T Chakrabarty, S Muresan, N Peng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08942, 2020 - arxiv.org
Literary tropes, from poetry to stories, are at the crux of human imagination and
communication. Figurative language such as a simile go beyond plain expressions to give …

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 …

Metaphor generation with conceptual mappings

K Stowe, T Chakrabarty, N Peng, S Muresan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Generating metaphors is a difficult task as it requires understanding nuanced relationships
between abstract concepts. In this paper, we aim to generate a metaphoric sentence given a …

MetaPro 2.0: Computational metaphor processing on the effectiveness of anomalous language modeling

R Mao, K He, C Ong, Q Liu… - Findings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Metaphor interpretation is a difficult task in natural language understanding. The
development of relevant techniques in this domain is slow, mostly because of the lack of …