Workshop Program
8:50-9:00AM - Opening Remarks
9:00AM-10:30AM - Research Track Talks
9:00-9:15AM - Cross-lingual Metaphor Detection for Low to High-Resource Languages
Anna Hülsing and Sabine Schulte im Walde
9:15:9-30AM - The Register-specific Distribution of Personification in Hungarian: A Corpus-driven Analysis
Gábor Simon
9:30-9:40AM - Comparison of Image Generation Models for Abstract and Concrete Event Descriptions
Mohammed Abdul Khaliq, Diego Frassinelli, and Sabine Schulte im Walde
9:40-9:50AM - Context vs. Human Disagreement in Sarcasm Detection
Hyewon Jang, Moritz Jakob, and Diego Frassinelli
9:50-10:05AM - A Hard Nut to Crack: Idiom Detection with Conversational Large Language Models
Francesca De Luca Fornaciari, Begoña Altuna, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, and Maite Melero
10:10-10:20AM - A Textual Modal Supplement Framework for Understanding Multimodal Figurative Language
Jiale Chen, Qihao Yang, Xuelian Dong, Xiaoling Mao, and Tianyong Hao
10:20-10:30AM - Guidelines for the Annotation of Deliberate Linguistic Metaphor
Stefanie Dipper and Adam Roussel and Alexandra Wiemann and Won Kim and Tra-My Nguyen
10:30-11:00AM - Coffee Break
11:00-11:30AM - Research Track + Shared Tasks
11:00-11:15AM - Report on the Multilingual Euphemism Detection Task
Patrick Lee and Anna Feldman
11:15-11:30AM - A Report on the FigLang2024 Shared Task on Multimodal Figurative Language
Shreyas Kulkarni, Arkadiy Saakyan, Tuhin Chakrabarty, and Smaranda Muresan
11:30AM-12:30PM - Panel Discussion: Creativity in the Era of Large Language Models
12:30-2:00PM - Lunch Break
2:00PM-3:00PM - Keynote Talk: Did language models "solve" figurative language?
Vered Shwartz
3:00-3:30PM - Research Track + Shared Tasks
3:00-3:10PM - The Elephant in the Room: Ten Challenges of Computational Detection of Rhetorical Figures
Ramona Kühn, Jelena Mitrović
3:10-3:20PM - An Expectation-Realization Model for Metaphor Detection
Oseremen O. Uduehi and Razvan C. Bunescu
3:20PM-3:30PM - Evaluating the Development of Linguistic Metaphor Annotation in Mexican Spanish Popular Science Tweets
Alec Sánchez-Montero, Gemma Bel-Enguix, Sergio-Luis Ojeda-Trueba, and Marisela Colín Rodea
3:30-4:00PM - Coffee Break
4:00-4:50PM - Shared Tasks
4:00-4:10PM - Optimizing Multilingual Euphemism Detection Using Low-Rank Adaptation Within and Across Languages
Nicholas Hankins
4:10-4:20PM - Can GPT-4 Detect Euphemisms across Multiple Languages?
Todd Firsich and Anthony Rios
4:20-4:30PM - Ensemble-based Multilingual Euphemism Detection: a Behavior-Guided Approach
Fedor Vitiugin and Henna Paakki
4:30-4:40PM - FigCLIP: A Generative Multimodal Model with Bidirectional Cross-attention for Understanding Figurative Language via Visual Entailment
Qihao Yang and Xuelin Wang
4:50-5:00PM - Closing Remarks
Best Paper: An Expectation-Realization Model for Metaphor Detection
Oseremen O. Uduehi and Razvan C. Bunescu