CLS Speaker Series: Ekaterina Shutova today at 16:00

[Raquel Fernandez]

Dear all,

We kick-start this season of the Computational Linguistics Seminar today
with a talk by Ekaterina Shutova - details below.

The seminar will take place today 25 Sept at 16:00 at the ILLC, Science
Park 107, room F1.15.

Ekaterina Shutova, ILLC, UvA
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~es407/

*Grasping the finer point: Metaphor identification in text and brain
imaging data*

Besides making our thoughts more vivid and filling our communication
with richer imagery, metaphor plays a fundamental structural role in our
cognition, helping us to organise and project knowledge. For example,
when we say “a/well-oiled/political/machine/”, we view the concept
of/political system/in terms of a/mechanism/and transfer inferences from
the domain of mechanisms onto our reasoning about political processes.
Highly frequent in text, metaphorical language represents a significant
challenge for natural language processing (NLP) systems. In this talk, I
will first present a neural network architecture designed to capture the
patterns of metaphorical use and its application to metaphor
identification in text. I will then discuss how general-purpose lexical
and compositional semantic models can be used to better understand
metaphor processing in the human brain.

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Raquel Fernandez
Institute for Logic, Language & Computation
University of Amsterdam
http://illc.uva.nl/~raquel