Metaphor 2014 - The Second Workshop on Metaphor in NLP

The main focus of the workshop is on computational modeling of metaphor using state-of-the-art NLP techniques. However, papers on cognitive, linguistic, and applied aspects of metaphor are also of interest, provided that they are presented within a computational, formal or quantitative framework. We also encourage descriptions of proposals and data sets for shared tasks on metaphor processing.
The workshop invites both full papers and short papers for either oral or poster presentation.
Topics will include, but will not be limited to, the following:
Identification and interpretation of different levels and types of metaphor
Conceptual and linguistic metaphor
Lexical metaphor
Multiword metaphorical expressions
Extended metaphor / metaphor in discourse
Conventional / novel / deliberate metaphor
Metaphor processing systems that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP methods
Statistical metaphor processing
The use of lexical resources for metaphor processing
The use of corpora for metaphor processing
Distributional methods for metaphor processing
Supervised and unsupervised learning for metaphor processing
Identification of conceptual and linguistic metaphor
Identification and interpretation of lexical metaphor / multiword metaphor / extended metaphor
Lexical metaphor interpretation vs. word sense disambiguation
Metaphor paraphrasing
Generation of metaphorical expressions
Metaphor translation and multilingual metaphor processing
Metaphor resources and evaluation
Metaphor annotation in corpora
Metaphor in lexical resources
Reliability of metaphor annotation
Datasets for evaluation of metaphor processing tools
Metaphor evaluation methodologies and frameworks
Descriptions of proposals for shared tasks on metaphor processing
Metaphor processing for external NLP applications
Metaphor in machine translation
Metaphor in opinion mining
Metaphor in information retrieval
Metaphor in educational applications
Metaphor in dialog systems
Metaphor in open-domain and domain-specific applications
Metaphor and cognition
Computational approaches to metaphor inspired by cognitive evidence
Cognitive models of metaphor processing by the human brain
Models of metaphor across languages and cultures
Metaphor interaction with other phenomena (within a computational, formal or quantitative framework)
Metaphor and compositionality
Metaphor and abstractness / concreteness
Metaphor and sentiment
Metaphor and persuasion
Metaphor and argumentation
Metaphor and metonymy
Metaphor and grammar