Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Metaphor Generation

Sofia Lugli, Carlo Strapparava


Abstract
This paper introduces an exploratory approach in the field of metaphorical and visual reasoning by proposing the Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Metaphor Generation task aimed to generate metaphorical linguistic expressions from non-metaphorical images by using the multimodal LLaVA 1.5 model and the two-step approach of multimodal chain-of- thought prompting. The generated metaphors were evaluated in two ways: using BERTscore and by five human workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Concerning the automatic evaluation, each generated metaphorical expression was paired with a corresponding human metaphorical expressions. The overall BERTscore was the following: precision= 0.41, recall= 0.43, and F1= 0.42, suggesting that generated and human metaphors might not have captured the same semantic meaning. The human evaluation showed the model’s ability to generate metaphorical expressions, as 92% of them were classified as metaphors by the majority of the workers. Additionally, the evaluation revealed interesting patterns in terms of metaphoricity, familiarity and appeal scores across the generated metaphors: as the metaphoricity and appeal scores increased, the familiarity score decreased, suggesting that the model exhibited a certain degree of creativity, as it has also generated novel or unconventional metaphorical expressions. It is important to acknowledge that this work is exploratory in nature and has certain limitations.
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2024.clicit-1.62
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Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)
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December
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2024
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Pisa, Italy
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Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Rachele Sprugnoli
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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Sofia Lugli and Carlo Strapparava. 2024. Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Metaphor Generation. In Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), pages 523–530, Pisa, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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