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A Couch Potato is not a Potato on a Couch: Prompting Strategies, Image Generation, and Compositionality Prediction for Noun Compounds
Sinan Kurtyigit, Diego Frassinelli, Carina Silberer, Sabine Schulte Im Walde
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.
BibTeX
@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://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.561/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.561",
pages = "10766--10776",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5"
}