Ever gotten gibberish translations from MT systems? MT systems still struggle with idiomatic expressions, making it hard for users to understand books, social media, or even menus. In our #EMNLP2023 work, we address this problem arxiv.org/abs/2310.07081

FigLang 2024 workshop will be held at NAACL 2024, Mexico city. As we all know this workshop is designed to address any inquiries you may have about figurative language, including irony, metaphor, simile, idioms, ... (you got the idea!). (1/2)

📢 Call for papers 📢 Join us at #NAACL2024 for the workshop on Figurative Language Processing! We welcome submissions on all aspects of figurative language, including multimodal and multilingual aspects. 🌐 Full CfP: sites.google.com/view/figlang20… 📆 Deadline: Mar 10, 2024

📣 Announcing the FigLang 2024 shared tasks! 🌎 Multlingual euphemism detection: codabench.org/competitions/1… 🖼️ Multimodal visual entailment: codabench.org/competitions/1… 📅 Check out the timelines here: sites.google.com/view/figlang20… Looking forward to your submissions!

Exciting new shared task on visual NLI that focuses on explainability of figurative images FigLangWorkshop Our training data consisting of 6377 samples paired with natural language explanations are now available. Go check it out codabench.org/competitions/1… #NLProc #NAACL2024

Second reminder about the CfP for FigLang2024, at #NAACL2024! 🖌️🎨 We welcome submissions on all aspects of figurative language and are branching out with multimodal/multilingual shared tasks this year! CfP: sites.google.com/view/figlang20… Shared Tasks: sites.google.com/view/figlang20…

The deadlines for FigLang2024 are extended! Please check out the new dates below: ⬇️ Long, short, and demonstration paper submission: Mar 17 2024 Notification: Mar 21 2024 Final paper submission: Apr 24 2024 Multimodal shared task: Mar 25 2024 Hope to see you at #NAACL2024!

Super excited to have Vered Shwartz give an inperson keynote at the FigLangWorkshop on June 21st (2 pm Mexico time). If you are attending NAACL HLT 2024 at 🇲🇽 or virtually please attend this talk :-) #NLProc #NAACL2024 #LLM #GenAI

I will give a talk in the FigLangWorkshop titled "Did Language Models 'Solve' Figurative Language?", on Friday June 21 at 2 PM. 3/3

We will present our research results this week at NAACL 2024 in Mexico FigLangWorkshop Read about “The Elephant in the Room: Ten Challenges of Computational Detection of Rhetorical Figures” ca-roll.github.io/downloads/FigL… #naacl #computationalrhetoric #NLProc

If you are attending #NAACL2024 in person or virtually be sure to attend the FigLangWorkshop on 21st June. We have an all star stellar panel who will be talking about LLMs and Creativity Aline Villavicencio Lydia Chilton Max Kreminski Violet Peng and Jane Bernstein. #NLProc

FigLangWorkshop is tomorrow at #NAACL2024 and we have an exciting day ahead of us with research talks in main track and shared tasks #NLProc

Thanks to everyone who attended FigLangWorkshop at #naacl2024 ! If you weren't able to make it, we've made recordings of the panel and keynote available! ☕️ Panel on creativity in the age of LLMs: sites.google.com/view/figlang20… 🎤 Vered Shwartz 's keynote: sites.google.com/view/figlang20…