Workshop

DGfS 2024 workshop “Computational Approaches to Metaphor and Figurative Language”

28. Feb., – 01. März 2024,
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Figurative and non-literal language, such as metaphor, metonymy, or personification, poses a special challenge for computational analysis, since these expressions are not used with their usual, ordinary meanings, as represented in corpus data or recorded in lexical resources, but with different, derived meanings.

In the context of the 46^th annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2024), which will take place in Bochum at the end of February 2024, the subprojects B01 and C04 will organize a workshop on the topic of “Computational approaches to metaphor and figurative language”.

The workshop will take place from February 28 to March 1, 2024, and aims to bring together computational linguists working on the automatic analysis of non-literal language. A special focus will be on non-conventionalized usages, such as novel metaphors or innovative forms of metonymy. In addition, the organizers are particularly interested in approaches applicable to languages other than English, for example low-resource languages or domains.

Invited Speakers

Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam)

Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart)

Workshop Program

All times listed are CET (UTC+01:00).

RAUM / ROOM: HGB 20

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

15:45	Corpus Linguistics
13:45	Introduction
13:45	Workshop organizers
14:45	Invited Talk: Modelling Metaphor in the Age of Large Language Models
14:45	Ekaterina Shutova
15:45	Coffee break
16:30	Extended metaphors
16:30	Markus Egg
17:00	Computational Analysis of the Use of Metaphors vs. Similes
17:00	Ariel Cohen
17:30	Investigating Body Part Construction Metaphors in the Neo-Assyrian Royal Archives
17:30	Matthew Ong and Shai Gordin

Thursday, February 29, 2024

10:30	Crosslinguistic studies
09:00	Invited Talk: Interactions of Figurative Language, Abstractness and Plausibility in Verb-Object Event Descriptions
09:00	Sabine Schulte im Walde
10:00	A Metaphor Theory Based on Etymological Structure Network Analysis
10:00	Marie Teich
10:30	Coffee break
11:15	VOLIMET: Synonymous Metaphorical vs. Literal Verb-Object English–German and English–French Parallel Corpus
11:15	Prisca Piccirilli, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Alexander Fraser
11:45	Cross-Lingual Metaphor Detection for Low-Resource Languages
11:45	Anna Hülsing, Sabine Schulte im Walde
12:15	Determiners' Impact on Metaphoric Meaning for Computational Analysis in Spanish
12:15	Maria Isabel Marin Morales, Maribel Betancur Serna, Laura Marcela Quintero Montoya
12:45	Lunch break
12:45	Semantic shifts
13:45	Identification of shifts in metaphorical usage of compound nouns over time
13:45	Chris Jenkins
14:15	Challenges in the Computational Detection of Metaphoric Change in Less-Resourced Languages: A Case Study of Technology-Related Expression in Polish
14:15	Marek Placiński, Klaudia Karkowska, Darya Namednikava, Svetlana Kuleshova & Michael Pleyer

Friday, March 1, 2024

Metaphor detection
11:45	Improved metaphor identification via (contextual) distributional semantic representations
11:45	Gerold Schneider, Johannes Fröh
12:15	Conceptual domain disambiguation for metaphor identification and interpretation
12:15	Mojca Brglez, Kristina Pahor de Maiti
12:45	Using Large Language Models for Conventional Metaphor Detection
12:45	Jiahui Liang, Stephan Raaijmakers, Aletta G. Dorst, Jelena Prokic
13:15	Closing Discussion
13:15