EmbodiedBERT: Cognitively Informed Metaphor Detection Incorporating Sensorimotor Information

Yuxi Li, Bo Peng, Yu Yin Hsu, Chu Ren Huang

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Abstract

The identification of metaphor is a crucial prerequisite for many downstream language tasks, such as sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and textual entailment. State-of-the-art systems of metaphor detection implement heuristic principles such as Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) (Pragglejaz Group, 2007) and Selection Preference Violation (SPV) (Wilks, 1975; Wilson, 2002). We propose an innovative approach that leverages the cognitive information of embodiment that can be derived from word embeddings, and explicitly models the process of sensorimotor change that has been demonstrated as essential for human metaphor processing. We showed that this cognitively motivated module is effective and can improve metaphor detection, compared with the heuristic MIP that has been applied previously.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2024 - 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Findings of EMNLP 2024
EditorsYaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages16868-16876
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9798891761681
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2024
Event2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2024 - Hybrid, Miami, United States
Duration: 12 Nov 202416 Nov 2024

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2024 - 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Findings of EMNLP 2024

Conference

Conference2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHybrid, Miami
Period12/11/2416/11/24

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Linguistics and Language

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