2 papers
cs.CL2026
Span Modeling for Idiomaticity and Figurative Language Detection with Span Contrastive Loss
Blake Matheny, Phuong Minh Nguyen, Minh Le Nguyen
The category of figurative language contains many varieties, some of which are non-compositional in nature. This type of phrase or multi-word expression (MWE) includes idioms, whic…
cs.CL2025
NLP Datasets for Idiom and Figurative Language Tasks
Blake Matheny, Phuong Minh Nguyen, Minh Le Nguyen +1
Idiomatic and figurative language form a large portion of colloquial speech and writing. With social media, this informal language has become more easily observable to people and t…