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Losing My Composure: Predicting Compositionality Over Time
Chris Jenkins, Emma Raimundo Schulz, Filip MiletiÄ +1
The paper studies how the meanings and compositionality of German and English noun compounds change over decades, introducing a task to predict compositionality trends using diachr…
Contextualising (Im)plausible Events Triggers Figurative Language
Annerose Eichel, Tonmoy Rakshit, Sabine Schulte im Walde
This work explores the connection between (non-)literalness and plausibility at the example of subject-verb-object events in English. We design a systematic setup of plausible and…
Learning the Cue or Learning the Word? Analyzing Generalization in Metaphor Detection for Verbs
Sinan Kurtyigit, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Alexander Fraser
Metaphor detection models achieve strong benchmark performance, yet it remains unclear whether this reflects transferable generalization or lexical memorization. To address this, w…
Floating or Suggesting Ideas? A Large-Scale Contrastive Analysis of Metaphorical and Literal Verb-Object Constructions
Prisca Piccirilli, Alexander Fraser, Sabine Schulte im Walde
Metaphor pervades everyday language, allowing speakers to express abstract concepts via concrete domains. While prior work has studied metaphors cognitively and psycholinguisticall…
Probing BERT for German Compound Semantics
Filip MiletiÄ, Aaron Schmid, Sabine Schulte im Walde
This paper investigates the extent to which pretrained German BERT encodes knowledge of noun compound semantics. We comprehensively vary combinations of target tokens, layers, and…
Unveiling the Mystery of Visual Attributes of Concrete and Abstract Concepts: Variability, Nearest Neighbors, and Challenging Categories
Tarun Tater, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Diego Frassinelli
The visual representation of a concept varies significantly depending on its meaning and the context where it occurs; this poses multiple challenges both for vision and multimodal…