Recent advances in neural metaphor processing: A linguistic, cognitive and social perspective

Xiaoyu Tong, Ekaterina Shutova, Martha Lewis


Abstract
Metaphor is an indispensable part of human cognition and everyday communication. Much research has been conducted elucidating metaphor processing in the mind/brain and the role it plays in communication. in recent years, metaphor processing systems have benefited greatly from these studies, as well as the rapid advances in deep learning for natural language processing (NLP). This paper provides a comprehensive review and discussion of recent developments in automated metaphor processing, in light of the findings about metaphor in the mind, language, and communication, and from the perspective of downstream NLP tasks.
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2021.naacl-main.372
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Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
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June
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2021
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Online
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Kristina Toutanova, Anna Rumshisky, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Iz Beltagy, Steven Bethard, Ryan Cotterell, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Yichao Zhou
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4673–4686
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.372
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.372
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Xiaoyu Tong, Ekaterina Shutova, and Martha Lewis. 2021. Recent advances in neural metaphor processing: A linguistic, cognitive and social perspective. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 4673–4686, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Recent advances in neural metaphor processing: A linguistic, cognitive and social perspective (Tong et al., NAACL 2021)
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