The 46th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2024)
Bochum, February 28 – March 1, 2024
Conference Website: https://www.dgfs2024.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
Figurative and non-literal language, such as metaphor, metonymy, or personification, poses a special challenge for computational analysis, since these expressions are not used with their usual, ordinary meanings, as represented in corpus data or recorded in lexical resources, but with different, derived meanings.
We aim to bring together computational linguists working on the automatic analysis of non-literal language. A special focus will be on non-conventionalized usages, such as novel metaphors or innovative forms of metonymy. In addition, we are particularly interested in approaches applicable to languages other than English, for example low-resource languages or domains.
Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam)
Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart)
Registration is now open! See here for details on how to register:
https://www.dgfs2024.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/dgfs/anmeldung.html.en
All sessions will be located in HGB 20.
| 13:45 | Introduction |
| Workshop organizers | |
| 14:45 | Invited Talk: Modelling Metaphor in the Age of Large Language Models |
| Ekaterina Shutova | |
| 15:45 | Coffee break |
| Corpus Linguistics | |
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| 16:30 | Extended metaphors |
| Markus Egg | |
| 17:00 | Computational Analysis of the Use of Metaphors vs. Similes |
| Ariel Cohen | |
| 17:30 | Investigating Body Part Construction Metaphors in the Neo-Assyrian Royal Archives |
| Matthew Ong, Shai Gordin | |
| 09:00 | Invited Talk: Interactions of Figurative Language, Abstractness and Plausibility in Verb-Object Event Descriptions |
| Sabine Schulte im Walde | |
| 10:00 | A Metaphor Theory Based on Etymological Structure Network Analysis |
| Marie Teich, Wilmer Leal, Jürgen Jost | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| Crosslinguistic studies | |
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| 11:15 | VOLIMET: Synonymous Metaphorical vs. Literal Verb-Object English–German and English–French Parallel Corpus |
| Prisca Piccirilli, Alexander Fraser, Sabine Schulte im Walde | |
| 11:45 | Cross-Lingual Metaphor Detection for Low-Resource Languages |
| Anna Hülsing, Sabine Schulte im Walde | |
| 12:15 | Determiners' Impact on Metaphoric Meaning for Computational Analysis in Spanish |
| Maria Isabel Marin Morales, Maribel Betancur Serna, Laura Marcela Quintero Montoya | |
| 12:45 | Lunch break |
| Semantic shifts | |
| 13:45 | Identification of shifts in metaphorical usage of compound nouns over time |
| Chris Jenkins, Filip Miletić, Sabine Schulte im Walde | |
| 14:15 | Challenges in the Computational Detection of Metaphoric Change in Less-Resourced Languages: A Case Study of Technology-Related Expression in Polish |
| Marek Placiński, Svetlana Kuleshova, Klaudia Karkowska, Darya Namednikava, Michael Pleyer | |
| Metaphor detection | |
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| 11:45 | Improved metaphor identification via (contextual) distributional semantic representations |
| Gerold Schneider, Johannes Fröh, Janis Goldzycher | |
| 12:15 | Conceptual domain disambiguation for metaphor identification and interpretation |
| Mojca Brglez, Kristina Pahor de Maiti Tekavčič | |
| 12:45 | Using Large Language Models for Conventional Metaphor Detection |
| Jiahui Liang, Stephan Raaijmakers, Aletta G. Dorst, Jelena Prokic | |
| 13:15 | Closing Discussion |
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/metaphor-dgfs2024/cfp.html
Abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2023
Notification of acceptance: September 8, 2023
Workshop: Feb 28 – Mar 1, 2024