Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Institut für Computerlinguistik

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Figurative Language Resolution

Module Description

Course Module Abbreviation Credit Points
BA-2010[100%|75%] CS-CL 6 LP
BA-2010[50%] BS-CL 6 LP
BA-2010[25%] BS-AC 4 LP
BA-2010 AS-FL 8 LP
Master SS-CL, SS-FAL 8LP
Lecturer Katja Markert
Module Type Proseminar / Hauptseminar
Language English
First Session 24.04.2019
Time and Place Wednesday, 11:15-12:45, INF 329 / SR 26
Commitment Period tbd.

Prerequisite for Participation

For MA Students: none.
For BA Students: ECL, Programming I

The topics and range of papers is very wide in this seminar, so that both papers for relatively early career students as well as for advanced students can easily be found.

Assessment

(i)Active Participation
(ii)Presentation
(iii)Second presentation, term paper or implementation project

Content

Figurative Language such as metaphor, irony, metonymy or idioms, is not just frequent but also a fundamental cognitive mechanism that structures conceptual domains. Psycholinguistic research showed that metaphorical framing influences human inference processes. (Thibodeau und Boroditsky, 2013). The resolution of figurative language was for a long time far behind other NLP topics, with regards to robustness, scalability and evaluation standards. This has changed in the last years due to the IARPA metaphor program, regular "Metaphor in NLP" workshops and shared tasks in irony/sarcasm detection. This seminar will look at linguistic and cognitive background to figurative language as well as algorithms for processing a wide variety of figurative language types, including metaphor, irony, metonymy and idioms. The algorithms range from AI-based algorithms to distributional semantics to multimodal approaches.

Module Overview

Agenda

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Literature

Will be given out at the beginning of term and is normally freely available.

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