The Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing

Welcome to the website of the Workshop on Figurative Language Processing!

The workshop will be held in conjunction with ACL 2020, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this will be a virtual event.

Date: July 9, 2020

Venue: Please join us for an exciting day of talks and discussions here. You need to log in with the credentials you received when you registered for ACL 2020.

The workshop invites full and short papers in the area of figurative language processing. It will also feature several invited talks and host two shared tasks on metaphor and sarcasm detection. Paper submission deadline is April 23, 2020.

The workshop is a part of a series of workshops dedicated to modelling metaphor, sarcasm and other types of figurative language:

The First Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, NAACL 2018

The Fourth Workshop on Metaphor in NLP, NAACL 2016

The Third Workshop on Metaphor in NLP, NAACL 2015

The Second Workshop on Metaphor in NLP, ACL 2014

The First Workshop on Metaphor in NLP, NAACL 2013


The workshop series is endorsed by ACL SIGLEX and the International Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM).