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Losing My Composure: Predicting Compositionality Over Time
Chris Jenkins, Emma Raimundo Schulz, Filip Miletić +1
We explore the phenomenon of semantic change of German and English noun compounds, with the objective of investigating and modeling gradual changes of meanings and degrees of compo…
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 Miletić, 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…
Semantics of Multiword Expressions in Transformer-Based Models: A Survey
Filip Miletić, Sabine Schulte im Walde
Multiword expressions (MWEs) are composed of multiple words and exhibit variable degrees of compositionality. As such, their meanings are notoriously difficult to model, and it is…
Investigating the Nature of Disagreements on Mid-Scale Ratings: A Case Study on the Abstractness-Concreteness Continuum
Urban Knupleš, Diego Frassinelli, Sabine Schulte im Walde
Humans tend to strongly agree on ratings on a scale for extreme cases (e.g., a CAT is judged as very concrete), but judgements on mid-scale words exhibit more disagreement. Yet, co…