Final Call for Abstracts
Computational approaches to metaphor and figurative language
Date: Feb 28-Mar 1, 2024
Location: Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Organizers: Stefanie Dipper, Tatjana Scheffler, Sebastian Reimann, Adam
Roussel (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Homepage: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/metaphor-dgfs2024/
Call deadline: September 1, 2023
Meeting description: Workshop at the Annual Conference of the German
Linguistic Society (DGfS 2024) https://dgfs.de/
Call for Papers:
Figurative and non-literal language, such as metaphor, metonymy, or
personification, poses a special challenge for computational analysis,
since these expressions are not used with their usual, ordinary
meanings, as represented in corpus data or recorded in lexical
resources, but with different, derived meanings.
We aim to bring together computational linguists working on the
automatic analysis of non-literal language. A special focus will be on
non-conventionalized usages, such as novel metaphors or innovative forms
of metonymy. In addition, we are particularly interested in approaches
applicable to languages other than English, for example low-resource
languages or domains.
We welcome contributions dealing with the identification of (specific
forms of) non-literal language, with the interpretation of figurative
expressions, or with the relation between literal and non-literal
meanings in distributional semantic representations. Further, we are
interested in discussing how the meaning of figurative expressions is
negotiated, for example in social media, and how distributional semantic
representations can be enriched in order to reflect figurative meaning.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* non-conventionalized or innovative figurative language
* computational approaches to metaphors, allegory, or metonymy
* features for automatically detecting figurative language
* the interpretation of non-literal expressions
* semantic divergence of non-literal expressions
* figurative expressions in low-resource languages
* meaning negotiation in social media
* semantic representations for figurative meaning
Invited speakers: Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart), tba
Submission details:
Authors should submit anonymous abstracts of maximally 2 pages
(including references) in a 12 point font (e.g., Times New Roman).
References should be formatted according to the APA guidelines. The
workshop language is English for both abstracts and talks. According to
DGfS regulations, speakers can only present a paper in one workshop.
Please submit your abstracts as a (anonymized) pdf document to the
following address: [email protected] , and include
the author information in the body of the email.
Upon acceptance, participants will be requested to submit a
de-anonymized shortened version of the abstract for the conference
booklet.
Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2023
Notification of acceptance: September 8, 2023
Workshop: Feb 28-Mar 1, 2024
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Sebastian Reimann (he/him)
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Department for German Language & Literature / CRC 1475: Metaphors of
Religion
Universitätsstraße 90a
44799 Bochum
Germany
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