The Fourth Workshop on Figurative Language Processing

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

The workshop will be held in conjunction with NAACL 2024, and will be a hybrid (in-person and virtual) event. 

Date:  June 21, 2024

Venue:  Hilton Mexico City Reforma

Submissions: Through OpenReview

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 : Visual Understanding of Figurative Language and Multilingual Euphemism Detection.

Paper submission deadline is Mar 17 for long, short, and demonstration papers.



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

The Third Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, EMNLP 2022

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)