@inproceedings{lal-bastan-2022-sbu,
    title = "{SBU} Figures It Out: Models Explain Figurative Language",
    author = "Lal, Yash Kumar  and
      Bastan, Mohaddeseh",
    editor = "Ghosh, Debanjan  and
      Beigman Klebanov, Beata  and
      Muresan, Smaranda  and
      Feldman, Anna  and
      Poria, Soujanya  and
      Chakrabarty, Tuhin",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FLP)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/2022.flp-1.20/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.flp-1.20",
    pages = "143--149",
    abstract = "Figurative language is ubiquitous in human communication. However, current NLP models are unable to demonstrate a significant understanding of instances of this phenomena. The EMNLP 2022 shared task on figurative language understanding posed the problem of predicting and explaining the relation between a premise and a hypothesis containing an instance of the use of figurative language. We experiment with different variations of using T5-large for this task and build a model that significantly outperforms the task baseline. Treating it as a new task for T5 and simply finetuning on the data achieves the best score on the defined evaluation. Furthermore, we find that hypothesis-only models are able to achieve most of the performance."
}