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The interpretation and translation of metaphors is a challenging task which has received much attention in the cognitive, linguistics and translation communities. The natural language processing (NLP) community provides tools for monolingual metaphor detection and interpretation as well as excellent cross-lingual representations and machine translation systems, but little work addresses metaphors in machine-learning translation. Metaphors are not only very flexible in their structures and meanings; they also strongly depend on the involved languages and cultures. Our long-term vision is to create a modular machine-learning translation system across language pairs that induces and successfully integrates knowledge and conditions for metaphor translation.





The project MeTRapher is a SemRel project in collaboration with Alexander Fraser at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It is funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the German Research Foundation) under research grant SCHU 2580/7-1.


Researchers


Publications

Anna Hülsing, Sabine Schulte im Walde
Cross-Lingual Metaphor Detection for Low- to High-Resource Languages [pdf/resource]
In: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Figurative Language Processing. Mexico City, Mexico, June 2024.

Prisca Piccirilli, Alexander Fraser, Sabine Schulte im Walde
VOLIMET: A Parallel Corpus of Literal and Metaphorical Verb-Object Pairs for English-German and English-French [pdf/resource/poster]
In: Proceedings of the 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM). Mexico City, Mexico, June 2024.

Prisca Piccirilli, Sabine Schulte im Walde
Features of Perceived Metaphoricity on the Discourse Level: Abstractness and Emotionality [pdf/poster/resource/bib]
In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Marseille, France, June 2022.

Prisca Piccirilli, Sabine Schulte im Walde
What Drives the Use of Metaphorical Language? Negative Insights from Abstractness, Affect, Discourse Coherence and Contextualized Word Representations [pdf/bib]
In: Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), and non-archival paper at the NAACL 2022 Student Research Workshop (NAACL-SRW). Seattle, Washington, July 2022.


Talks + Posters with Abstracts

Anna Hülsing, Sabine Schulte im Walde
Cross-Lingual Metaphor Detection for Low-Resource Languages [abstract]
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Metaphor and Figurative Language at the Annual Meeting of the DGfS
Universität Bochum, February 28-March 1, 2024

Prisca Piccirilli, Alexander Fraser, Sabine Schulte im Walde
VOLIMET: Synonymous Metaphorical vs. Literal Verb-Object English-German and English-French Parallel Corpus [abstract]
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Metaphor and Figurative Language at the Annual Meeting of the DGfS
Universität Bochum, February 28-March 1, 2024

Prisca Piccirilli, Sabine Schulte im Walde
Conditions for Perceived Metaphoricity in Discourses: Two Crowdsourcing Studies [abstract]
6th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL)
Poznan, Poland, April 20-24, 2022


Resources

Discourse-Met-Lit
Synonymous Literal and Metaphorical Expressions in Discourse

VOLIMET
Synonymous Metaphorical vs. Literal Verb-Object English-German and English-French Parallel Corpus