The Third Workshop on Figurative Language Processing

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

The workshop will be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this will be a hybrid (in-person and virtual) event.

Date: December 8, 2022

Venue: Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, Khaleej Al Arabi Street, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates / virtual

RocketChat channel: https://emnlp2022.rocket.chat/channel/workshop-17-flp

The workshop invites full and short papers in the area of figurative language processing. It will also feature an invited talk and two shared tasks : Understanding of Figurative Language and Euphemism Detection. Paper submission deadline is Sept 14, 2022.

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

The Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing , ACL 2020

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).