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Meghdut Sengupta

3 accepted papers

2024

Analyzing the Use of Metaphors in News Editorials for Political Framing

NAACL 2024long

Metaphorical language is a pivotal element inthe realm of political framing. Existing workfrom linguistics and the social sciences providescompelling evidence regarding the distinctivenessof conceptual framing for politicalideology perspectives. However, the nature andutilization of metaphors and th…

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2024

Modeling the Quality of Dialogical Explanations

COLING 2024main

Explanations are pervasive in our lives. Mostly, they occur in dialogical form where an explainer discusses a concept or phenomenon of interest with an explainee. Leaving the explainee with a clear understanding is not straightforward due to the knowledge gap between the two participants. Previous r…

2023

Modeling Highlighting of Metaphors in Multitask Contrastive Learning Paradigms

EMNLP 2023long findings

Metaphorical language, such as ``spending time together'', projects meaning from a source domain (here, $\textit{money}$) to a target domain ($\textit{time}$). Thereby, it highlights certain aspects of the target domain, such as the $\textit{effort}$ behind the time investment. Highlighting aspects…

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