3 papers
cs.CL2022
What Drives the Use of Metaphorical Language? Negative Insights from Abstractness, Affect, Discourse Coherence and Contextualized Word Representations
Prisca Piccirilli, Sabine Schulte im Walde
Given a specific discourse, which discourse properties trigger the use of metaphorical language, rather than using literal alternatives? For example, what drives people to say "gra…
cs.CL2022
Features of Perceived Metaphoricity on the Discourse Level: Abstractness and Emotionality
Prisca Piccirilli, Sabine Schulte im Walde
Research on metaphorical language has shown ties between abstractness and emotionality with regard to metaphoricity; prior work is however limited to the word and sentence levels,…
cs.CL2021
Coordinate Constructions in English Enhanced Universal Dependencies: Analysis and Computational Modeling
Stefan Grünewald, Prisca Piccirilli, Annemarie Friedrich
In this paper, we address the representation of coordinate constructions in Enhanced Universal Dependencies (UD), where relevant dependency links are propagated from conjunction he…