The Third Workshop on Metaphor in NLP

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
Metaphor 2015
Location: 
co-located with NAACL 2015
Friday, 5 June 2015
State: 
Colorado
Country: 
USA
Contact Email: 
City: 
Denver
Contact: 
Ekaterina Shutova
Submission Deadline: 
Wednesday, 4 March 2015

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The Third Workshop on Metaphor in NLP

(co-located with NAACL 2015)

Denver, Colorado, USA – June 5, 2015

https://sites.google.com/site/metaphorinnlp2015/home

Submission deadline: March 4, 2015

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Metaphor processing is a rapidly growing area in NLP. The ubiquity of metaphor in language has been established in a number of corpus studies and the role it plays in human reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments. This makes metaphor an important research area for computational and cognitive linguistics, and its automatic identification and interpretation indispensable for any semantics-oriented NLP application.
The work on metaphor in NLP and AI started in the 1980s, providing us with a wealth of ideas on its structure and mechanisms. The last decade witnessed a technological leap in natural language computation, whereby manually crafted rules gradually give way to more robust corpus-based statistical methods. This is also the case for metaphor research. In the recent years, the problem of metaphor modeling has been steadily gaining interest within the NLP community, with a growing number of approaches exploiting statistical techniques. Compared to more traditional approaches based on hand-coded knowledge, these more recent methods tend to have a wider coverage, as well as be more efficient, accurate and robust. However, even the statistical metaphor processing approaches so far often focused on a limited domain or a subset of phenomena. At the same time, recent work on computational lexical semantics and lexical acquisition techniques, as well as a wide range of NLP methods applying machine learning to open-domain semantic tasks, open many new avenues for creation of large-scale robust tools for recognition and interpretation of metaphor.
The main focus of the workshop will be on computational modeling of metaphor using state-of-the-art NLP techniques. However, papers on cognitive, linguistic, and applied aspects of metaphor are also of interest, provided that they are presented within a computational, a formal or a quantitative framework. We also encourage descriptions of proposals and data sets for shared tasks on metaphor processing.

The workshop will solicit both full papers and short papers for either oral or poster presentation.

Topics will include, but will not be limited to, the following:

Identification and interpretation of different levels and types of metaphor:
Conceptual and linguistic metaphor
Lexical metaphor
Multiword metaphorical expressions
Extended metaphor / metaphor in discourse
Conventional / novel / deliberate metaphor

Metaphor processing systems that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP methods:
Statistical metaphor processing
The use of lexical resources for metaphor processing
The use of corpora for metaphor processing
Distributional methods for metaphor processing
Supervised and unsupervised learning for metaphor processing
Identification of conceptual and linguistic metaphor
Identification and interpretation of lexical metaphor / multiword metaphor / extended metaphor
Lexical metaphor interpretation vs. word sense disambiguation
Metaphor paraphrasing
Generation of metaphorical expressions
Metaphor translation and multilingual metaphor processing

Metaphor resources and evaluation:
Metaphor annotation in corpora
Metaphor in lexical resources
Reliability of metaphor annotation
Datasets for evaluation of metaphor processing tools
Metaphor evaluation methodologies and frameworks
Descriptions of proposals for shared tasks on metaphor processing

Metaphor processing for external NLP applications:
Metaphor in machine translation
Metaphor in opinion mining
Metaphor in information retrieval
Metaphor in educational applications
Metaphor in dialog systems
Metaphor in open-domain and domain-specific applications

Metaphor and cognition:
Computational approaches to metaphor inspired by cognitive evidence
Cognitive models of metaphor processing by the human brain
Models of metaphor across languages and cultures

Metaphor interaction with other phenomena (within a computational, formal or quantitative framework):
Metaphor and compositionality
Metaphor and abstractness / concreteness
Metaphor and sentiment
Metaphor and persuasion
Metaphor and argumentation
Metaphor and metonymy
Metaphor and grammar

Metaphor and sentiment:
The use of metaphorical language to express stronger sentiment / evaluation
Sentiment processing systems that make use of metaphor as a feature
Sentiment processing systems that detect affect associated with metaphorical expressions

Metaphor in social media:
Processing of metaphorical language in blogging, twitter and other social media
How metaphorical language helps shape communication in social media
The influence of metaphor on social dynamics

IMPORTANT DATES

March 4, 2015 Paper submissions due (23:59 East Coast USA time)
March 23, 2015 Notification of acceptance
March 30, 2015 Camera-ready papers due
June 5, 2015 Workshop in Denver, Colorado, USA

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages, with up to 2 additional pages for references. We also invite short papers of up to 4 pages, with up to 2 additional pages for references.

All submissions should follow the two-column format of NAACL 2015 proceedings. Please use ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference; these style files are available from NAACL 2015 website. Submissions must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in the style files, and they must be electronic in PDF format. Please see naaclhlt2015.pdf for detailed formatting instructions.

Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your submissions on the web until after the review process is complete.

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Ekaterina Shutova, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service, USA
Patricia Lichtenstein, University of California, Merced, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

John Barnden, University of Birmingham, UK
Yulia Badryzlova, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Danushka Bollegala, University of Liverpool, UK
Paul Cook, University of New Brunswisk, Canada
Gerard de Melo, Tsinghua University, China
Ellen Dodge, ICSI, UC Berkeley, USA
Jonathan Dunn, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA
Michael Flor, Educational Testing Service, USA
Mark Granroth-Wilding, University of Cambridge, UK
Yanfen Hao, Hour Group Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Felix Hill, University of Cambridge, UK
Jerry Hobbs, USC ISI, USA
Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Hyeju Jang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mark Lee, University of Birmingham, UK
Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, UK
Saif Mohammad, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Michael Mohler, Language Computer Corporation, USA
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Srini Narayanan, Google, Switzerland
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Yair Neuman, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Malvina Nissim, University of Bologna, Italy
Thierry Poibeau, Ecole Normale Superieure and CNRS, France
Bryan Rink, LCC, USA
Eyal Sagi, Northwestern University, USA
Sabine Schulte im Walde, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Samira Shaikh, SUNY Albany, USA
Caroline Sporleder, University of Trier, Germany
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK
Gerard Steen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany, USA
Marc Tomlinson, LCC, USA
Yulia Tsvetkov, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Peter Turney, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Tony Veale, Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Andreas Vlachos, University College London, UK