*Shared Task on Understanding Figurative Language at FigLang2022*

Interested in figurative language understanding, textual entailment,
explanation generation? We are happy to announce a new shared task on
Understanding Figurative Language as part of the Figurative Language
Workshop (FigLang 2022) at EMNLP 2022.

*Important dates:*

· July 10, 2022: CodaLab competition is open; training data can be
downloaded

· *Aug 15, 2022: Test data* (available only to registered participants) can
be downloaded and results submitted; performance will be tracked on CodaLab
dashboard

· *Aug 20, 2022: Last day for submitting predictions on test data*

· Sept 7, 2022: Papers describing the systems are due

· Oct 9, 2022: Notification of acceptance

· TBD, 2022: Camera-ready papers due

· December 8, 2022: Workshop at EMNLP 2022

In recent years, there have been several benchmarks dedicated to figurative
language understanding, which generally frame "understanding" as a
recognizing textual entailment task -- deciding whether one sentence
(premise) entails/contradicts another (hypothesis) (Chakrabarty et al 2021,
Stowe et al 2022). We introduce a new shared task for figurative language
understanding around this textual entailment paradigm, where the hypothesis
is a sentence containing the figurative language expression (e.g.,
metaphor, sarcasm, idiom, simile) and the premise is a literal sentence
containing the literal meaning. There are two important aspects of this
task: 1) the task requires not only to generate the label
(entail/contradict) but also to generate a plausible explanation for the
prediction; 2) the entail/contradict label and the exploration are related
to the meaning of the figurative language expression.

For more information about the shared task, including the link to the
datasets, evaluation metrics and scripts important dates please visit the
Shared task website (https://figlang2022sharedtask.github.io/).
Participants can use the following CodaLab (
https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5908) link to participate in
the task as well as submit the predictions.



*Organizing Team*

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Columbia University; [email protected]

Arkadiy Saakyan, Columbia University; [email protected]

Debanjan Ghosh, Educational Testing Service; [email protected]

Smaranda Muresan, Data Science Institute, Columbia University;
[email protected]
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