@inproceedings{kurtyigit-etal-2025-couch,
    title = "A Couch Potato is not a Potato on a Couch: Prompting Strategies, Image Generation, and Compositionality Prediction for Noun Compounds",
    author = "Kurtyigit, Sinan  and
      Frassinelli, Diego  and
      Silberer, Carina  and
      Schulte Im Walde, Sabine",
    editor = "Che, Wanxiang  and
      Nabende, Joyce  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/transition-to-people-yaml/2025.findings-acl.561/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.561",
    pages = "10766--10776",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5",
    abstract = "We explore the role of the visual modality and of vision transformers in predicting the compositionality of English noun compounds. Crucially, we contribute a framework to address the challenge of obtaining adequate images that represent non-compositional compounds (such as ``couch potato''), making it relevant for any image-based approach targeting figurative language. Our method uses prompting strategies and diffusion models to generate images. Comparing and combining our approach with a state-of-the-art text-based approach reveals complementary contributions regarding features as well as degrees of abstractness in compounds."
}