Framing what and how to think: Lay people’s metaphors for algorithms
P.F. Porwol, M. Körber, F. Kern, C. Schulte, I. Scharlau, in: P. Cimiano, B. Paaßen, A.-L. Vollmer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations, Bielefeld University Press, 2026.

When prediction replaces explanation:  A threat to psychological science 
M. Knauff, M.V. Butz, B. Kaup, W. Kunde, I. Scharlau, Psyarxiv (2026).

Agency in metaphors of explaining: An analysis of scientific texts
I. Scharlau, K.J. Rohlfing, (2025).

An annotated corpus of elicited metaphors of explaining and understanding using MIPVU
P. Porwol, I. Scharlau, An Annotated Corpus of Elicited Metaphors of Explaining and Understanding Using MIPVU, OSF, 2025.

Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language Models in  Explanation Dialogues
L. Fichtel, M. Spliethöver, E. Hüllermeier, P. Jimenez, N. Klowait, S. Kopp, A.-C. Ngonga Ngomo, A. Robrecht, I. Scharlau, L. Terfloth, A.-L. Vollmer, H. Wachsmuth, in: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Association for Computational Linguistics, Avignon, France, n.d.

Metaphors in 24 WIRED Level 5 Videos (Data corpus)
I. Scharlau, K. Miriam, Metaphors in 24 WIRED Level 5 Videos (Data Corpus), OSF, 2025.

Is explaining more like showing or more like building? Agency in metaphors of explaining
P.F. Porwol, I. Scharlau, Frontiers in Psychology (2025).

What do metaphors of understanding hide?
P.F. Porwol, I. Scharlau, STUDIA NEOFILOLOGICZ: NEROZPRAWY JZYKOZNAWCZE (Modern Language Studies: Linguistic Essays) XXI (2025) 181–198.

Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language Models in  Explanation Dialogues
L. Fichtel, M. Spliethöver, E. Hüllermeier, P. Jimenez, N. Klowait, S. Kopp, A.-C. Ngonga Ngomo, A. Robrecht, I. Scharlau, L. Terfloth, A.-L. Vollmer, H. Wachsmuth, ArXiv:2504.18483 (2025).

Investigating the Impact of Conceptual Metaphors on LLM-based NLI through Shapley Interactions
M. Sengupta, M. Muschalik, F. Fumagalli, B. Hammer, E. Hüllermeier, D. Ghosh, H. Wachsmuth, in: Accepted in Findings , EMNLP , 2025.

Analyzing the Use of Metaphors in News Editorials for Political Framing
M. Sengupta, R. El Baff, M. Alshomary, H. Wachsmuth, in: K. Duh, H. Gomez, S. Bethard (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), Association for Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, 2024, pp. 3621–3631.

When to use a metaphor: Metaphors in dialogical explanations with addressees of different expertise
I. Scharlau, M. Körber, M. Sengupta, H. Wachsmuth, Frontiers in Language Sciences 3 (2024) 1474924.

Modeling Highlighting of Metaphors in Multitask Contrastive Learning Paradigms
M. Sengupta, M. Alshomary, I. Scharlau, H. Wachsmuth, in: H. Bouamor, J. Pino, K. Bali (Eds.), Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, Association for Computational Linguistics, Singapore, 2023, pp. 4636–4659.

Back to the Roots: Predicting the Source Domain of Metaphors using Contrastive Learning
M. Sengupta, M. Alshomary, H. Wachsmuth, in: Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, 2022.