5 papers
Reading Between the Frames: Interpreting Implicit and Non-literal Meaning in Social Media Videos
Yang Wang, Yanan Ma, Yiqi Liu +7
Social media videos often communicate meanings that go beyond their visible actions, captions, or speech. A mundane clip may become humorous, ironic, or satire only through the int…
A Parallel Cross-Lingual Benchmark for Multimodal Idiomaticity Understanding
Dilara TorunoÄlu-Selamet, Dogukan Arslan, Rodrigo Wilkens +75
Potentially idiomatic expressions (PIEs) construe meanings inherently tied to the everyday experience of a given language community. As such, they constitute an interesting challen…
SemEval-2025 Task 1: AdMIRe -- Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation
Thomas Pickard, Aline Villavicencio, Maggie Mi +3
Idiomatic expressions present a unique challenge in NLP, as their meanings are often not directly inferable from their constituent words. Despite recent advancements in Large Langu…
Investigating Idiomaticity in Word Representations
Wei He, Tiago Kramer Vieira, Marcos Garcia +3
Idiomatic expressions are an integral part of human languages, often used to express complex ideas in compressed or conventional ways (e.g. eager beaver as a keen and enthusiastic…
Enhancing Idiomatic Representation in Multiple Languages via an Adaptive Contrastive Triplet Loss
Wei He, Marco Idiart, Carolina Scarton +1
Accurately modeling idiomatic or non-compositional language has been a longstanding challenge in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This is partly because these expressions do not…