@inproceedings{sengupta-etal-2022-back,
    title = "Back to the Roots: Predicting the Source Domain of Metaphors using Contrastive Learning",
    author = "Sengupta, Meghdut  and
      Alshomary, Milad  and
      Wachsmuth, Henning",
    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/fix-sig-urls/2022.flp-1.19/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.flp-1.19",
    pages = "137--142",
    abstract = "Metaphors frame a given target domain using concepts from another, usually more concrete, source domain. Previous research in NLP has focused on the identification of metaphors and the interpretation of their meaning. In contrast, this paper studies to what extent the source domain can be predicted computationally from a metaphorical text. Given a dataset with metaphorical texts from a finite set of source domains, we propose a contrastive learning approach that ranks source domains by their likelihood of being referred to in a metaphorical text. In experiments, it achieves reasonable performance even for rare source domains, clearly outperforming a classification baseline."
}