Lu Shijia
2026
FL-MSCL: A Unified Figurative Language Detection Model Driven by Multi-Type Signals and Contrastive Learning
Lu Shijia | Fumiyo Fukumoto | Huang Xiaoxi | Yoshimi Suzuki
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Lu Shijia | Fumiyo Fukumoto | Huang Xiaoxi | Yoshimi Suzuki
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Figurative language recognition poses significant challenges in NLP, particularly when distinguishing between fine-grained rhetorical categories such as metaphor, metonymy, and simile. This paper formulates the problem as a four-way sentence-level classification task and proposes FL-MSCL, a unified framework integrating prompt-based knowledge injection with supervised contrastive learning. Experiments across both unified and single-class benchmarks demonstrate that FL-MSCL achieves competitive performance compared to State-of-the-Art (SOTA) methods, indicating consistent advantages in cross-category generalization and category-specific detection.