@inproceedings{majumdar-etal-2025-like,
    title = "`... like a needle in a haystack'': Annotation and Classification of Comparative Statements",
    author = "Majumdar, Pritha  and
      Pannach, Franziska  and
      Graciotti, Arianna  and
      Bos, Johan",
    editor = "Kazantseva, Anna  and
      Szpakowicz, Stan  and
      Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania  and
      Bizzoni, Yuri  and
      Pagel, Janis",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2025)",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.latechclfl-1.23/",
    pages = "261--271",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-241-1",
    abstract = "We present a clear distinction between the phenomena of comparisons and similes along with a fine-grained annotation guideline that facilitates the structural annotation and assessment of the two classes, with three major contributions: 1) a publicly available annotated data set of 100 comparative statements; 2) theoretically grounded annotation guidelines for human annotators; and 3) results of machine learning experiments to establish how the{--}often subtle{--}distinction between the two phenomena can be automated."
}