The Interplay between Metaphors and NLP

Joanne Boisson, Jose Camacho-Collados, Elisa Sanchez-Bayona, Rodrigo Agerri


Abstract
This tutorial will be of the type Introductory to CL/NLP topics, providing an overview of the metaphor processing field. The tutorial will discuss the influence of various metaphor theories on the creation of annotated resources and models. We will particularly focus on recent directions opened by LLMs for metaphor interpretation in multilingual and multimodal settings. Two types of audience may benefit from this tutorial: researchers in the humanities and computational social sciences interested in automatic or semi automatic metaphor analysis, and NLP researchers interested in understanding metaphor processing and improving metaphor modeling.
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2026.acl-1.6
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Tutorial Abstracts)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, USA
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Jacob Andreas, Kenton Murray
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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11–12
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Joanne Boisson, Jose Camacho-Collados, Elisa Sanchez-Bayona, and Rodrigo Agerri. 2026. The Interplay between Metaphors and NLP. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Tutorial Abstracts), pages 11–12, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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