---
_id: '64827'
author:
- first_name: Philip Fabian
  full_name: Porwol, Philip Fabian
  id: '56681'
  last_name: Porwol
- first_name: Miriam
  full_name: Körber, Miriam
  last_name: Körber
- first_name: 'Friederike '
  full_name: 'Kern, Friederike '
  last_name: Kern
- first_name: Carsten
  full_name: Schulte, Carsten
  last_name: Schulte
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
citation:
  ama: 'Porwol PF, Körber M, Kern F, Schulte C, Scharlau I. Framing what and how to
    think: Lay people’s metaphors for algorithms. In: Cimiano P, Paaßen B, Vollmer
    A-L, eds. <i>Proceedings of the 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations</i>.
    Bielefeld University Press; 2026. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.64136/ubio9074">10.64136/ubio9074</a>'
  apa: 'Porwol, P. F., Körber, M., Kern, F., Schulte, C., &#38; Scharlau, I. (2026).
    Framing what and how to think: Lay people’s metaphors for algorithms. In P. Cimiano,
    B. Paaßen, &#38; A.-L. Vollmer (Eds.), <i>Proceedings of the 3rd TRR 318 Conference:
    Contextualizing Explanations</i>. Bielefeld University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.64136/ubio9074">https://doi.org/10.64136/ubio9074</a>'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Porwol_Körber_Kern_Schulte_Scharlau_2026, title={Framing
    what and how to think: Lay people’s metaphors for algorithms}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.64136/ubio9074">10.64136/ubio9074</a>},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations},
    publisher={Bielefeld University Press}, author={Porwol, Philip Fabian and Körber,
    Miriam and Kern, Friederike  and Schulte, Carsten and Scharlau, Ingrid}, editor={Cimiano,
    Philip and Paaßen, Benjamin and Vollmer, Anna-Lisa}, year={2026} }'
  chicago: 'Porwol, Philip Fabian, Miriam Körber, Friederike  Kern, Carsten Schulte,
    and Ingrid Scharlau. “Framing What and How to Think: Lay People’s Metaphors for
    Algorithms.” In <i>Proceedings of the 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing
    Explanations</i>, edited by Philip Cimiano, Benjamin Paaßen, and Anna-Lisa Vollmer.
    Bielefeld University Press, 2026. <a href="https://doi.org/10.64136/ubio9074">https://doi.org/10.64136/ubio9074</a>.'
  ieee: 'P. F. Porwol, M. Körber, F. Kern, C. Schulte, and I. Scharlau, “Framing what
    and how to think: Lay people’s metaphors for algorithms,” in <i>Proceedings of
    the 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations</i>, Bielefeld, 2026,
    doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.64136/ubio9074">10.64136/ubio9074</a>.'
  mla: 'Porwol, Philip Fabian, et al. “Framing What and How to Think: Lay People’s
    Metaphors for Algorithms.” <i>Proceedings of the 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing
    Explanations</i>, edited by Philip Cimiano et al., Bielefeld University Press,
    2026, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.64136/ubio9074">10.64136/ubio9074</a>.'
  short: '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.'
conference:
  location: Bielefeld
  name: '3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations'
date_created: 2026-03-04T10:45:06Z
date_updated: 2026-03-04T10:45:19Z
department:
- _id: '424'
doi: 10.64136/ubio9074
editor:
- first_name: Philip
  full_name: Cimiano, Philip
  last_name: Cimiano
- first_name: Benjamin
  full_name: Paaßen, Benjamin
  last_name: Paaßen
- first_name: Anna-Lisa
  full_name: Vollmer, Anna-Lisa
  last_name: Vollmer
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://bielefelduniversitypress.de/publikationen/contextualizing-explanations
oa: '1'
project:
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318; TP C04: Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
publication: 'Proceedings of the 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations'
publisher: Bielefeld University Press
status: public
title: 'Framing what and how to think: Lay people’s metaphors for algorithms'
type: conference_abstract
user_id: '451'
year: '2026'
...
---
_id: '59839'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'In many scientific approaches, especially in those that try to foster explainability
    of Artificial Intelligences, a narrow conception of explaining prevails. This
    narrow conception implies that explaining is a one-directional action in which
    knowledge is transferred from the explainer to an addressee. By studying the amount
    of agency in metaphors for explaining in scientific texts, we want to find out
    – or at least to contribute a partial answer to the question – why this narrow
    conception is so dominant. For our analysis, we use a linguistic conception of
    agency, transitivity. This concept allows to specify the degree of agency or effectiveness
    of the action in a verbalised event. It is defined by several component parts.
    We detail and discuss both the parameters of and global transitivity. Overall,
    transitivity of explaining metaphors has a rather common pattern across metaphors.
    Agency is not high and reduced in characteristic aspects: The metaphors imply
    that the object of explaining is static, i.e., is not changed within the explanation,
    and that explaining is the activity of one person only. This pattern may account
    for the narrow conception of explaining. It contrasts strongly with current co-constructive
    or sociotechnical approaches to explainability.'
author:
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
- first_name: Katharina J.
  full_name: Rohlfing, Katharina J.
  id: '50352'
  last_name: Rohlfing
  orcid: 0000-0002-5676-8233
citation:
  ama: 'Scharlau I, Rohlfing KJ. Agency in metaphors of explaining: An analysis of
    scientific texts. Published online 2025.'
  apa: 'Scharlau, I., &#38; Rohlfing, K. J. (2025). <i>Agency in metaphors of explaining:
    An analysis of scientific texts</i>. Center for Open Science.'
  bibtex: '@article{Scharlau_Rohlfing_2025, title={Agency in metaphors of explaining:
    An analysis of scientific texts}, publisher={Center for Open Science}, author={Scharlau,
    Ingrid and Rohlfing, Katharina J.}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: 'Scharlau, Ingrid, and Katharina J. Rohlfing. “Agency in Metaphors of Explaining:
    An Analysis of Scientific Texts.” Center for Open Science, 2025.'
  ieee: 'I. Scharlau and K. J. Rohlfing, “Agency in metaphors of explaining: An analysis
    of scientific texts.” Center for Open Science, 2025.'
  mla: 'Scharlau, Ingrid, and Katharina J. Rohlfing. <i>Agency in Metaphors of Explaining:
    An Analysis of Scientific Texts</i>. Center for Open Science, 2025.'
  short: I. Scharlau, K.J. Rohlfing, (2025).
date_created: 2025-05-07T11:00:09Z
date_updated: 2025-05-07T11:09:37Z
department:
- _id: '424'
- _id: '749'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- url: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/rwh9b_v1
project:
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318 - C4: TRR 318 - Subproject C4 - Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
publication_status: published
publisher: Center for Open Science
status: public
title: 'Agency in metaphors of explaining: An analysis of scientific texts'
type: preprint
user_id: '451'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '59922'
author:
- first_name: Philip
  full_name: Porwol, Philip
  last_name: Porwol
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
citation:
  ama: Porwol P, Scharlau I. <i>An Annotated Corpus of Elicited Metaphors of Explaining
    and Understanding Using MIPVU</i>. OSF; 2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Y6SMX">10.17605/OSF.IO/Y6SMX</a>
  apa: Porwol, P., &#38; Scharlau, I. (2025). <i>An annotated corpus of elicited metaphors
    of explaining and understanding using MIPVU</i>. OSF. <a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Y6SMX">https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Y6SMX</a>
  bibtex: '@book{Porwol_Scharlau_2025, title={An annotated corpus of elicited metaphors
    of explaining and understanding using MIPVU}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Y6SMX">10.17605/OSF.IO/Y6SMX</a>},
    publisher={OSF}, author={Porwol, Philip and Scharlau, Ingrid}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: Porwol, Philip, and Ingrid Scharlau. <i>An Annotated Corpus of Elicited
    Metaphors of Explaining and Understanding Using MIPVU</i>. OSF, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Y6SMX">https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Y6SMX</a>.
  ieee: P. Porwol and I. Scharlau, <i>An annotated corpus of elicited metaphors of
    explaining and understanding using MIPVU</i>. OSF, 2025.
  mla: Porwol, Philip, and Ingrid Scharlau. <i>An Annotated Corpus of Elicited Metaphors
    of Explaining and Understanding Using MIPVU</i>. OSF, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Y6SMX">10.17605/OSF.IO/Y6SMX</a>.
  short: P. Porwol, I. Scharlau, An Annotated Corpus of Elicited Metaphors of Explaining
    and Understanding Using MIPVU, OSF, 2025.
date_created: 2025-05-16T10:01:58Z
date_updated: 2025-05-16T10:02:14Z
department:
- _id: '424'
doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Y6SMX
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://osf.io/y6smx/
oa: '1'
project:
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318 - C4: TRR 318 - Subproject C4 - Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
publisher: OSF
status: public
title: An annotated corpus of elicited metaphors of explaining and understanding using
  MIPVU
type: misc
user_id: '451'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '60718'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "The ability to generate explanations that are understood by explainees is
    the\r\nquintessence of explainable artificial intelligence. Since understanding\r\ndepends
    on the explainee's background and needs, recent research focused on\r\nco-constructive
    explanation dialogues, where an explainer continuously monitors\r\nthe explainee's
    understanding and adapts their explanations dynamically. We\r\ninvestigate the
    ability of large language models (LLMs) to engage as explainers\r\nin co-constructive
    explanation dialogues. In particular, we present a user\r\nstudy in which explainees
    interact with an LLM in two settings, one of which\r\ninvolves the LLM being instructed
    to explain a topic co-constructively. We\r\nevaluate the explainees' understanding
    before and after the dialogue, as well\r\nas their perception of the LLMs' co-constructive
    behavior. Our results suggest\r\nthat LLMs show some co-constructive behaviors,
    such as asking verification\r\nquestions, that foster the explainees' engagement
    and can improve understanding\r\nof a topic. However, their ability to effectively
    monitor the current\r\nunderstanding and scaffold the explanations accordingly
    remains limited."
author:
- first_name: Leandra
  full_name: Fichtel, Leandra
  last_name: Fichtel
- first_name: Maximilian
  full_name: Spliethöver, Maximilian
  last_name: Spliethöver
- first_name: Eyke
  full_name: Hüllermeier, Eyke
  last_name: Hüllermeier
- first_name: Patricia
  full_name: Jimenez, Patricia
  id: '103339'
  last_name: Jimenez
- first_name: Nils
  full_name: Klowait, Nils
  id: '98454'
  last_name: Klowait
  orcid: 0000-0002-7347-099X
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Kopp, Stefan
  last_name: Kopp
- first_name: Axel-Cyrille
  full_name: Ngonga Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille
  id: '65716'
  last_name: Ngonga Ngomo
- first_name: Amelie
  full_name: Robrecht, Amelie
  last_name: Robrecht
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
- first_name: Lutz
  full_name: Terfloth, Lutz
  id: '37320'
  last_name: Terfloth
- first_name: Anna-Lisa
  full_name: Vollmer, Anna-Lisa
  last_name: Vollmer
- first_name: Henning
  full_name: Wachsmuth, Henning
  last_name: Wachsmuth
citation:
  ama: Fichtel L, Spliethöver M, Hüllermeier E, et al. Investigating Co-Constructive
    Behavior of Large Language Models in  Explanation Dialogues. <i>arXiv:250418483</i>.
    Published online 2025.
  apa: Fichtel, L., Spliethöver, M., Hüllermeier, E., Jimenez, P., Klowait, N., Kopp,
    S., Ngonga Ngomo, A.-C., Robrecht, A., Scharlau, I., Terfloth, L., Vollmer, A.-L.,
    &#38; Wachsmuth, H. (2025). Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language
    Models in  Explanation Dialogues. In <i>arXiv:2504.18483</i>.
  bibtex: '@article{Fichtel_Spliethöver_Hüllermeier_Jimenez_Klowait_Kopp_Ngonga Ngomo_Robrecht_Scharlau_Terfloth_et
    al._2025, title={Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language Models
    in  Explanation Dialogues}, journal={arXiv:2504.18483}, author={Fichtel, Leandra
    and Spliethöver, Maximilian and Hüllermeier, Eyke and Jimenez, Patricia and Klowait,
    Nils and Kopp, Stefan and Ngonga Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille and Robrecht, Amelie and
    Scharlau, Ingrid and Terfloth, Lutz and et al.}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: Fichtel, Leandra, Maximilian Spliethöver, Eyke Hüllermeier, Patricia Jimenez,
    Nils Klowait, Stefan Kopp, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, et al. “Investigating Co-Constructive
    Behavior of Large Language Models in  Explanation Dialogues.” <i>ArXiv:2504.18483</i>,
    2025.
  ieee: L. Fichtel <i>et al.</i>, “Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large
    Language Models in  Explanation Dialogues,” <i>arXiv:2504.18483</i>. 2025.
  mla: Fichtel, Leandra, et al. “Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language
    Models in  Explanation Dialogues.” <i>ArXiv:2504.18483</i>, 2025.
  short: 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).
date_created: 2025-07-22T13:10:42Z
date_updated: 2025-07-23T11:23:32Z
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2504.18483'
has_accepted_license: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- url: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18483
page: '20'
project:
- _id: '121'
  grant_number: '438445824'
  name: 'TRR 318 - B01: TRR 318 - Ein dialogbasierter Ansatz zur Erklärung von Modellen
    des maschinellen Lernens (Teilprojekt B01)'
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318 - C4: TRR 318 - Subproject C4 - Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
- _id: '122'
  name: 'TRR 318 - B3: TRR 318 - Subproject B3'
- _id: '119'
  name: 'TRR 318 - Ö: TRR 318 - Project Area Ö'
- _id: '114'
  grant_number: '438445824'
  name: 'TRR 318 - A04: TRR 318 - Integration des technischen Modells in das Partnermodell
    bei der Erklärung von digitalen Artefakten (Teilprojekt A04)'
publication: arXiv:2504.18483
status: public
title: Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language Models in  Explanation
  Dialogues
type: preprint
user_id: '98454'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '61190'
author:
- first_name: Meghdut
  full_name: Sengupta, Meghdut
  id: '99459'
  last_name: Sengupta
- first_name: 'Maximilian '
  full_name: 'Muschalik, Maximilian '
  last_name: Muschalik
- first_name: Fabian
  full_name: Fumagalli, Fabian
  id: '93420'
  last_name: Fumagalli
- first_name: Barbara
  full_name: Hammer, Barbara
  last_name: Hammer
- first_name: 'Eyke '
  full_name: 'Hüllermeier, Eyke '
  last_name: Hüllermeier
- first_name: Debanjan
  full_name: Ghosh, Debanjan
  last_name: Ghosh
- first_name: Henning
  full_name: Wachsmuth, Henning
  id: '3900'
  last_name: Wachsmuth
citation:
  ama: 'Sengupta M, Muschalik M, Fumagalli F, et al. Investigating the Impact of Conceptual
    Metaphors on LLM-based NLI through Shapley Interactions. In: <i>Accepted in Findings
    </i>. EMNLP ; 2025.'
  apa: Sengupta, M., Muschalik, M., Fumagalli, F., Hammer, B., Hüllermeier, E., Ghosh,
    D., &#38; Wachsmuth, H. (2025). Investigating the Impact of Conceptual Metaphors
    on LLM-based NLI through Shapley Interactions. <i>Accepted in Findings </i>. Empirical
    Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025).
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Sengupta_Muschalik_Fumagalli_Hammer_Hüllermeier_Ghosh_Wachsmuth_2025,
    title={Investigating the Impact of Conceptual Metaphors on LLM-based NLI through
    Shapley Interactions}, booktitle={Accepted in Findings }, publisher={EMNLP },
    author={Sengupta, Meghdut and Muschalik, Maximilian  and Fumagalli, Fabian and
    Hammer, Barbara and Hüllermeier, Eyke  and Ghosh, Debanjan and Wachsmuth, Henning},
    year={2025} }'
  chicago: Sengupta, Meghdut, Maximilian  Muschalik, Fabian Fumagalli, Barbara Hammer,
    Eyke  Hüllermeier, Debanjan Ghosh, and Henning Wachsmuth. “Investigating the Impact
    of Conceptual Metaphors on LLM-Based NLI through Shapley Interactions.” In <i>Accepted
    in Findings </i>. EMNLP , 2025.
  ieee: M. Sengupta <i>et al.</i>, “Investigating the Impact of Conceptual Metaphors
    on LLM-based NLI through Shapley Interactions,” presented at the Empirical Methods
    in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), 2025.
  mla: Sengupta, Meghdut, et al. “Investigating the Impact of Conceptual Metaphors
    on LLM-Based NLI through Shapley Interactions.” <i>Accepted in Findings </i>,
    EMNLP , 2025.
  short: 'M. Sengupta, M. Muschalik, F. Fumagalli, B. Hammer, E. Hüllermeier, D. Ghosh,
    H. Wachsmuth, in: Accepted in Findings , EMNLP , 2025.'
conference:
  end_date: 2025-11-09
  name: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)
  start_date: 2025-11-04
date_created: 2025-09-11T09:27:10Z
date_updated: 2025-09-11T09:28:23Z
ddc:
- '000'
extern: '1'
file:
- access_level: closed
  content_type: application/pdf
  creator: meghdut
  date_created: 2025-09-11T09:26:18Z
  date_updated: 2025-09-11T09:26:18Z
  file_id: '61194'
  file_name: sengupta25-emnlp.pdf
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  relation: main_file
  success: 1
file_date_updated: 2025-09-11T09:26:18Z
has_accepted_license: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
project:
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318; TP C04: Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
publication: 'Accepted in Findings '
publisher: 'EMNLP '
status: public
title: Investigating the Impact of Conceptual Metaphors on LLM-based NLI through Shapley
  Interactions
type: conference
user_id: '99459'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '61234'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "The ability to generate explanations that are understood by explainees is
    the\r\nquintessence of explainable artificial intelligence. Since understanding\r\ndepends
    on the explainee's background and needs, recent research focused on\r\nco-constructive
    explanation dialogues, where an explainer continuously monitors\r\nthe explainee's
    understanding and adapts their explanations dynamically. We\r\ninvestigate the
    ability of large language models (LLMs) to engage as explainers\r\nin co-constructive
    explanation dialogues. In particular, we present a user\r\nstudy in which explainees
    interact with an LLM in two settings, one of which\r\ninvolves the LLM being instructed
    to explain a topic co-constructively. We\r\nevaluate the explainees' understanding
    before and after the dialogue, as well\r\nas their perception of the LLMs' co-constructive
    behavior. Our results suggest\r\nthat LLMs show some co-constructive behaviors,
    such as asking verification\r\nquestions, that foster the explainees' engagement
    and can improve understanding\r\nof a topic. However, their ability to effectively
    monitor the current\r\nunderstanding and scaffold the explanations accordingly
    remains limited."
author:
- first_name: Leandra
  full_name: Fichtel, Leandra
  last_name: Fichtel
- first_name: Maximilian
  full_name: Spliethöver, Maximilian
  id: '84035'
  last_name: Spliethöver
  orcid: 0000-0003-4364-1409
- first_name: Eyke
  full_name: Hüllermeier, Eyke
  id: '48129'
  last_name: Hüllermeier
- first_name: Patricia
  full_name: Jimenez, Patricia
  id: '103339'
  last_name: Jimenez
- first_name: Nils
  full_name: Klowait, Nils
  id: '98454'
  last_name: Klowait
  orcid: 0000-0002-7347-099X
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Kopp, Stefan
  last_name: Kopp
- first_name: Axel-Cyrille
  full_name: Ngonga Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille
  id: '65716'
  last_name: Ngonga Ngomo
- first_name: Amelie
  full_name: Robrecht, Amelie
  id: '91982'
  last_name: Robrecht
  orcid: 0000-0001-5622-8248
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
- first_name: Lutz
  full_name: Terfloth, Lutz
  id: '37320'
  last_name: Terfloth
- first_name: Anna-Lisa
  full_name: Vollmer, Anna-Lisa
  id: '86589'
  last_name: Vollmer
- first_name: Henning
  full_name: Wachsmuth, Henning
  id: '3900'
  last_name: Wachsmuth
citation:
  ama: 'Fichtel L, Spliethöver M, Hüllermeier E, et al. Investigating Co-Constructive
    Behavior of Large Language Models in  Explanation Dialogues. In: <i>Proceedings
    of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue</i>.
    Association for Computational Linguistics.'
  apa: Fichtel, L., Spliethöver, M., Hüllermeier, E., Jimenez, P., Klowait, N., Kopp,
    S., Ngonga Ngomo, A.-C., Robrecht, A., Scharlau, I., Terfloth, L., Vollmer, A.-L.,
    &#38; Wachsmuth, H. (n.d.). Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language
    Models in  Explanation Dialogues. <i>Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of
    the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue</i>. Annual Meeting of the
    Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Fichtel_Spliethöver_Hüllermeier_Jimenez_Klowait_Kopp_Ngonga
    Ngomo_Robrecht_Scharlau_Terfloth_et al., place={Avignon, France}, title={Investigating
    Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language Models in  Explanation Dialogues},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group
    on Discourse and Dialogue}, publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics},
    author={Fichtel, Leandra and Spliethöver, Maximilian and Hüllermeier, Eyke and
    Jimenez, Patricia and Klowait, Nils and Kopp, Stefan and Ngonga Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille
    and Robrecht, Amelie and Scharlau, Ingrid and Terfloth, Lutz and et al.} }'
  chicago: 'Fichtel, Leandra, Maximilian Spliethöver, Eyke Hüllermeier, Patricia Jimenez,
    Nils Klowait, Stefan Kopp, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, et al. “Investigating Co-Constructive
    Behavior of Large Language Models in  Explanation Dialogues.” In <i>Proceedings
    of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue</i>.
    Avignon, France: Association for Computational Linguistics, n.d.'
  ieee: L. Fichtel <i>et al.</i>, “Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large
    Language Models in  Explanation Dialogues,” presented at the Annual Meeting of
    the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue.
  mla: Fichtel, Leandra, et al. “Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language
    Models in  Explanation Dialogues.” <i>Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of
    the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue</i>, Association for Computational
    Linguistics.
  short: '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.'
conference:
  name: Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
date_created: 2025-09-11T16:11:17Z
date_updated: 2025-09-12T09:50:48Z
department:
- _id: '660'
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2504.18483'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18483
oa: '1'
place: Avignon, France
project:
- _id: '118'
  name: 'TRR 318: Project Area INF'
- _id: '121'
  name: 'TRR 318; TP B01: Ein dialogbasierter Ansatz zur Erklärung von Modellen des
    maschinellen Lernens'
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318; TP C04: Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
- _id: '122'
  name: TRR 318 - Subproject B3
- _id: '119'
  name: TRR 318 - Project Area Ö
- _id: '114'
  name: 'TRR 318; TP A04: Integration des technischen Modells in das Partnermodell
    bei der Erklärung von digitalen Artefakten'
publication: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group
  on Discourse and Dialogue
publication_status: accepted
publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
related_material:
  link:
  - relation: software
    url: https://github.com/webis-de/sigdial25-co-constructive-llms
  - relation: research_data
    url: https://github.com/webis-de/sigdial25-co-constructive-llms-data
status: public
title: Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language Models in  Explanation
  Dialogues
type: conference
user_id: '84035'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '59921'
author:
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
- first_name: Körber
  full_name: Miriam, Körber
  last_name: Miriam
citation:
  ama: Scharlau I, Miriam K. <i>Metaphors in 24 WIRED Level 5 Videos (Data Corpus)</i>.
    OSF; 2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/94A2J">10.17605/OSF.IO/94A2J</a>
  apa: Scharlau, I., &#38; Miriam, K. (2025). <i>Metaphors in 24 WIRED Level 5 Videos
    (Data corpus)</i>. OSF. <a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/94A2J">https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/94A2J</a>
  bibtex: '@book{Scharlau_Miriam_2025, title={Metaphors in 24 WIRED Level 5 Videos
    (Data corpus)}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/94A2J">10.17605/OSF.IO/94A2J</a>},
    publisher={OSF}, author={Scharlau, Ingrid and Miriam, Körber}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: Scharlau, Ingrid, and Körber Miriam. <i>Metaphors in 24 WIRED Level 5 Videos
    (Data Corpus)</i>. OSF, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/94A2J">https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/94A2J</a>.
  ieee: I. Scharlau and K. Miriam, <i>Metaphors in 24 WIRED Level 5 Videos (Data corpus)</i>.
    OSF, 2025.
  mla: Scharlau, Ingrid, and Körber Miriam. <i>Metaphors in 24 WIRED Level 5 Videos
    (Data Corpus)</i>. OSF, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/94A2J">10.17605/OSF.IO/94A2J</a>.
  short: I. Scharlau, K. Miriam, Metaphors in 24 WIRED Level 5 Videos (Data Corpus),
    OSF, 2025.
date_created: 2025-05-16T09:57:56Z
date_updated: 2025-09-16T08:57:15Z
department:
- _id: '424'
doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/94A2J
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://osf.io/94a2j/
oa: '1'
project:
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318 - C4: TRR 318 - Subproject C4 - Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
publisher: OSF
status: public
title: Metaphors in 24 WIRED Level 5 Videos (Data corpus)
type: misc
user_id: '451'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '61244'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Explanations play a crucial role in knowledge transfer and meaning-making
    and are often described as a co-constructive process in which multiple agents
    collaboratively shape understanding. However, the metaphors used to conceptualize
    explaining may influence how this process is framed. This study investigates the
    extent to which the co-constructive nature of explaining is represented in explaining
    metaphors. Using a systematic analysis of agency, we examined how these metaphors
    depict the explanation process and the roles of the agents involved. We found
    that explaining metaphors lack collaboration between explainer and addressee,
    constructiveness of the process, as well as bidirectionality and iterativeness.
    In light of current research on metaphorical framing, the study thus highlights
    the risk that such explaining metaphors may reinforce a non-co-constructive perspective
    on explaining and a top-down approach in the development of AI systems as well
    as other areas.
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Philip Fabian
  full_name: Porwol, Philip Fabian
  id: '56681'
  last_name: Porwol
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
citation:
  ama: Porwol PF, Scharlau I. Is explaining more like showing or more like building?
    Agency in metaphors of explaining. <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>. Published online
    2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706</a>
  apa: Porwol, P. F., &#38; Scharlau, I. (2025). Is explaining more like showing or
    more like building? Agency in metaphors of explaining. <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Porwol_Scharlau_2025, title={Is explaining more like showing or
    more like building? Agency in metaphors of explaining}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706</a>},
    journal={Frontiers in Psychology}, author={Porwol, Philip Fabian and Scharlau,
    Ingrid}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: Porwol, Philip Fabian, and Ingrid Scharlau. “Is Explaining More like Showing
    or More like Building? Agency in Metaphors of Explaining.” <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>,
    2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706</a>.
  ieee: 'P. F. Porwol and I. Scharlau, “Is explaining more like showing or more like
    building? Agency in metaphors of explaining,” <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>,
    2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706</a>.'
  mla: Porwol, Philip Fabian, and Ingrid Scharlau. “Is Explaining More like Showing
    or More like Building? Agency in Metaphors of Explaining.” <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>,
    2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706</a>.
  short: P.F. Porwol, I. Scharlau, Frontiers in Psychology (2025).
date_created: 2025-09-12T09:43:58Z
date_updated: 2025-10-27T08:46:28Z
department:
- _id: '424'
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706
language:
- iso: eng
project:
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318; TP C04: Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
publication: Frontiers in Psychology
publication_status: published
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Is explaining more like showing or more like building? Agency in metaphors
  of explaining
type: journal_article
user_id: '56681'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '62932'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'Many previous studies on the conceptual function of metaphors have focused
    on their func-tion  of  highlighting  aspects  of  target  concepts.  From  the  beginning  of  this  research,  it  was
    knownthat conceptual metaphors also hide aspects of the target concept; however,
    this as-pect has been less studied. This study builds upon the idea that the hiding
    aspect of a specific metaphor should be identified in relation to other metaphors
    for the same concept. A method is presented to detail this relation based on the
    theory of semantic frames and the FrameNet resource to identify the hidden aspects
    and apply it to a corpus of 298 elicited metaphor texts on the target concept
    of understanding. The analysis revealed that certain conceptual aspects are consistently
    hidden by a majority of metaphors, pointing to patterns in conceptualization.
    Using  this  approach,  six  aspects  frequently  hidden  by  metaphors  were  identified:  Sociality,
    Transfer, Ownership, Perception, Foundation and Duration.'
author:
- first_name: Philip Fabian
  full_name: Porwol, Philip Fabian
  id: '56681'
  last_name: Porwol
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
citation:
  ama: 'Porwol PF, Scharlau I. What do metaphors of understanding hide? <i>STUDIA
    NEOFILOLOGICZ: NEROZPRAWY JĘZYKOZNAWCZE (Modern Language Studies: Linguistic Essays)</i>.
    2025;XXI:181-198.'
  apa: 'Porwol, P. F., &#38; Scharlau, I. (2025). What do metaphors of understanding
    hide? <i>STUDIA NEOFILOLOGICZ: NEROZPRAWY JĘZYKOZNAWCZE (Modern Language Studies:
    Linguistic Essays)</i>, <i>XXI</i>, 181–198.'
  bibtex: '@article{Porwol_Scharlau_2025, title={What do metaphors of understanding
    hide?}, volume={XXI}, journal={STUDIA NEOFILOLOGICZ: NEROZPRAWY JĘZYKOZNAWCZE
    (Modern Language Studies: Linguistic Essays)}, publisher={Uniwersytet Jana Długosza
    w Częstochowie}, author={Porwol, Philip Fabian and Scharlau, Ingrid}, year={2025},
    pages={181–198} }'
  chicago: 'Porwol, Philip Fabian, and Ingrid Scharlau. “What Do Metaphors of Understanding
    Hide?” <i>STUDIA NEOFILOLOGICZ: NEROZPRAWY JĘZYKOZNAWCZE (Modern Language Studies:
    Linguistic Essays)</i> XXI (2025): 181–98.'
  ieee: 'P. F. Porwol and I. Scharlau, “What do metaphors of understanding hide?,”
    <i>STUDIA NEOFILOLOGICZ: NEROZPRAWY JĘZYKOZNAWCZE (Modern Language Studies: Linguistic
    Essays)</i>, vol. XXI, pp. 181–198, 2025.'
  mla: 'Porwol, Philip Fabian, and Ingrid Scharlau. “What Do Metaphors of Understanding
    Hide?” <i>STUDIA NEOFILOLOGICZ: NEROZPRAWY JĘZYKOZNAWCZE (Modern Language Studies:
    Linguistic Essays)</i>, vol. XXI, Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie, 2025,
    pp. 181–98.'
  short: 'P.F. Porwol, I. Scharlau, STUDIA NEOFILOLOGICZ: NEROZPRAWY JĘZYKOZNAWCZE
    (Modern Language Studies: Linguistic Essays) XXI (2025) 181–198.'
date_created: 2025-12-05T16:41:58Z
date_updated: 2025-12-05T16:42:03Z
department:
- _id: '424'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 181-198
project:
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318; TP C04: Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
publication: 'STUDIA NEOFILOLOGICZ: NEROZPRAWY JĘZYKOZNAWCZE (Modern Language Studies:
  Linguistic Essays)'
publication_status: published
publisher: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie
status: public
title: What do metaphors of understanding hide?
type: journal_article
user_id: '451'
volume: XXI
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '55338'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 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 the effect on audiencesof
    different political ideologies withinpolitical discourses are hardly explored.
    Toenable research in this direction, in this workwe create a dataset, originally
    based on newseditorials and labeled with their persuasive effectson liberals and
    conservatives and extend itwith annotations pertaining to metaphorical usageof
    language. To that end, first, we identifyall single metaphors and composite metaphors.Secondly,
    we provide annotations of the sourceand target domains for each metaphor. As aresult,
    our corpus consists of 300 news editorialsannotated with spans of texts containingmetaphors
    and the corresponding domains ofwhich these metaphors draw from. Our analysisshows
    that liberal readers are affected bymetaphors, whereas conservatives are resistantto
    them. Both ideologies are affected differentlybased on the metaphor source and
    targetcategory. For example, liberals are affected bymetaphors in the Darkness
    {&} Light (e.g., death)source domains, where as the source domain ofNature affects
    conservatives more significantly.
author:
- first_name: Meghdut
  full_name: Sengupta, Meghdut
  id: '99459'
  last_name: Sengupta
- first_name: Roxanne
  full_name: El Baff, Roxanne
  last_name: El Baff
- first_name: Milad
  full_name: Alshomary, Milad
  id: '73059'
  last_name: Alshomary
- first_name: Henning
  full_name: Wachsmuth, Henning
  id: '3900'
  last_name: Wachsmuth
citation:
  ama: 'Sengupta M, El Baff R, Alshomary M, Wachsmuth H. Analyzing the Use of Metaphors
    in News Editorials for Political Framing. In: Duh K, Gomez H, Bethard S, eds.
    <i>Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association
    for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)</i>.
    Association for Computational Linguistics; 2024:3621–3631.'
  apa: 'Sengupta, M., El Baff, R., Alshomary, M., &#38; Wachsmuth, H. (2024). Analyzing
    the Use of Metaphors in News Editorials for Political Framing. In K. Duh, H. Gomez,
    &#38; S. Bethard (Eds.), <i>Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American
    Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
    (Volume 1: Long Papers)</i> (pp. 3621–3631). Association for Computational Linguistics.'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Sengupta_El Baff_Alshomary_Wachsmuth_2024, place={Mexico
    City, Mexico}, title={Analyzing the Use of Metaphors in News Editorials for Political
    Framing}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American
    Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
    (Volume 1: Long Papers)}, publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics},
    author={Sengupta, Meghdut and El Baff, Roxanne and Alshomary, Milad and Wachsmuth,
    Henning}, editor={Duh, Kevin and Gomez, Helena and Bethard, Steven}, year={2024},
    pages={3621–3631} }'
  chicago: 'Sengupta, Meghdut, Roxanne El Baff, Milad Alshomary, and Henning Wachsmuth.
    “Analyzing the Use of Metaphors in News Editorials for Political Framing.” In
    <i>Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association
    for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)</i>,
    edited by Kevin Duh, Helena Gomez, and Steven Bethard, 3621–3631. Mexico City,
    Mexico: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024.'
  ieee: 'M. Sengupta, R. El Baff, M. Alshomary, and H. Wachsmuth, “Analyzing the Use
    of Metaphors in News Editorials for Political Framing,” in <i>Proceedings of the
    2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
    Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)</i>, 2024, pp.
    3621–3631.'
  mla: 'Sengupta, Meghdut, et al. “Analyzing the Use of Metaphors in News Editorials
    for Political Framing.” <i>Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American
    Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
    (Volume 1: Long Papers)</i>, edited by Kevin Duh et al., Association for Computational
    Linguistics, 2024, pp. 3621–3631.'
  short: '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.'
date_created: 2024-07-22T13:08:12Z
date_updated: 2024-07-26T13:02:57Z
department:
- _id: '600'
- _id: '660'
editor:
- first_name: Kevin
  full_name: Duh, Kevin
  last_name: Duh
- first_name: Helena
  full_name: Gomez, Helena
  last_name: Gomez
- first_name: Steven
  full_name: Bethard, Steven
  last_name: Bethard
language:
- iso: eng
page: 3621–3631
place: Mexico City, Mexico
project:
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318 - C4: TRR 318 - Subproject C4 - Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
publication: 'Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of
  the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume
  1: Long Papers)'
publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
status: public
title: Analyzing the Use of Metaphors in News Editorials for Political Framing
type: conference
user_id: '3900'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '58109'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: The present study aims to understand how metaphors are used in explanations.
    According to many current theories, metaphors have a conceptual function for the
    understanding of abstract objects. From this theoretical assumption, we derived
    the hypothesis that the lower the expertise of the addressee of an explanation,
    the more metaphors should be used. We tested this hypothesis on a relatively natural
    data set of 24 published videos with close to 100,000 words overall in which experts
    explain abstract, mostly scientific concepts to persons of different expertise,
    varying from minimal (children) to profound (expert). Contrary to our expectations,
    the frequency of metaphors did not decrease with expertise, but actually increased.
    This increase could be statistically substantiated with higher differences in
    expertise. The study contributes to a better understanding of the use of metaphors
    in actual explanatory processes and how metaphor use depends on contextual factors.
    It thus supports the expansion of the conceptual and linguistic perspective on
    metaphors to include the aspect of how metaphors are used by speakers.
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
- first_name: Miriam
  full_name: Körber, Miriam
  last_name: Körber
- first_name: Meghdut
  full_name: Sengupta, Meghdut
  last_name: Sengupta
- first_name: Henning
  full_name: Wachsmuth, Henning
  last_name: Wachsmuth
citation:
  ama: 'Scharlau I, Körber M, Sengupta M, Wachsmuth H. When to use a metaphor: Metaphors
    in dialogical explanations with addressees of different expertise. <i>Frontiers
    in Language Sciences</i>. 2024;3:1474924.'
  apa: 'Scharlau, I., Körber, M., Sengupta, M., &#38; Wachsmuth, H. (2024). When to
    use a metaphor: Metaphors in dialogical explanations with addressees of different
    expertise. <i>Frontiers in Language Sciences</i>, <i>3</i>, 1474924.'
  bibtex: '@article{Scharlau_Körber_Sengupta_Wachsmuth_2024, title={When to use a
    metaphor: Metaphors in dialogical explanations with addressees of different expertise},
    volume={3}, journal={Frontiers in Language Sciences}, author={Scharlau, Ingrid
    and Körber, Miriam and Sengupta, Meghdut and Wachsmuth, Henning}, year={2024},
    pages={1474924} }'
  chicago: 'Scharlau, Ingrid, Miriam Körber, Meghdut Sengupta, and Henning Wachsmuth.
    “When to Use a Metaphor: Metaphors in Dialogical Explanations with Addressees
    of Different Expertise.” <i>Frontiers in Language Sciences</i> 3 (2024): 1474924.'
  ieee: 'I. Scharlau, M. Körber, M. Sengupta, and H. Wachsmuth, “When to use a metaphor:
    Metaphors in dialogical explanations with addressees of different expertise,”
    <i>Frontiers in Language Sciences</i>, vol. 3, p. 1474924, 2024.'
  mla: 'Scharlau, Ingrid, et al. “When to Use a Metaphor: Metaphors in Dialogical
    Explanations with Addressees of Different Expertise.” <i>Frontiers in Language
    Sciences</i>, vol. 3, 2024, p. 1474924.'
  short: I. Scharlau, M. Körber, M. Sengupta, H. Wachsmuth, Frontiers in Language
    Sciences 3 (2024) 1474924.
date_created: 2025-01-08T11:59:24Z
date_updated: 2025-01-08T11:59:34Z
department:
- _id: '660'
funded_apc: '1'
intvolume: '         3'
keyword:
- metaphor
- conceptual metaphor
- conceptual metaphor theory
- metaphor usage
- explaining
- explanation
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/language-sciences/articles/10.3389/flang.2024.1474924/full
oa: '1'
page: '1474924'
project:
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318 - C4: TRR 318 - Subproject C4 - Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
publication: Frontiers in Language Sciences
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: 'When to use a metaphor: Metaphors in dialogical explanations with addressees
  of different expertise'
type: journal_article
user_id: '451'
volume: 3
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '55406'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Metaphorical language, such as {“}spending time together{”}, projects meaning
    from a source domain (here, $money$) to a target domain ($time$). Thereby, it
    highlights certain aspects of the target domain, such as the $effort$ behind the
    time investment. Highlighting aspects with metaphors (while hiding others) bridges
    the two domains and is the core of metaphorical meaning construction. For metaphor
    interpretation, linguistic theories stress that identifying the highlighted aspects
    is important for a better understanding of metaphors. However, metaphor research
    in NLP has not yet dealt with the phenomenon of highlighting. In this paper, we
    introduce the task of identifying the main aspect highlighted in a metaphorical
    sentence. Given the inherent interaction of source domains and highlighted aspects,
    we propose two multitask approaches - a joint learning approach and a continual
    learning approach - based on a finetuned contrastive learning model to jointly
    predict highlighted aspects and source domains. We further investigate whether
    (predicted) information about a source domain leads to better performance in predicting
    the highlighted aspects, and vice versa. Our experiments on an existing corpus
    suggest that, with the corresponding information, the performance to predict the
    other improves in terms of model accuracy in predicting highlighted aspects and
    source domains notably compared to the single-task baselines.
author:
- first_name: Meghdut
  full_name: Sengupta, Meghdut
  id: '99459'
  last_name: Sengupta
- first_name: Milad
  full_name: Alshomary, Milad
  id: '73059'
  last_name: Alshomary
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
- first_name: Henning
  full_name: Wachsmuth, Henning
  id: '3900'
  last_name: Wachsmuth
citation:
  ama: 'Sengupta M, Alshomary M, Scharlau I, Wachsmuth H. Modeling Highlighting of
    Metaphors in Multitask Contrastive Learning Paradigms. In: Bouamor H, Pino J,
    Bali K, eds. <i>Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP
    2023</i>. Association for Computational Linguistics; 2023:4636–4659. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308">10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308</a>'
  apa: 'Sengupta, M., Alshomary, M., Scharlau, I., &#38; Wachsmuth, H. (2023). Modeling
    Highlighting of Metaphors in Multitask Contrastive Learning Paradigms. In H. Bouamor,
    J. Pino, &#38; K. Bali (Eds.), <i>Findings of the Association for Computational
    Linguistics: EMNLP 2023</i> (pp. 4636–4659). Association for Computational Linguistics.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308">https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308</a>'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Sengupta_Alshomary_Scharlau_Wachsmuth_2023, place={Singapore},
    title={Modeling Highlighting of Metaphors in Multitask Contrastive Learning Paradigms},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308">10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308</a>},
    booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023},
    publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics}, author={Sengupta, Meghdut
    and Alshomary, Milad and Scharlau, Ingrid and Wachsmuth, Henning}, editor={Bouamor,
    Houda and Pino, Juan and Bali, Kalika}, year={2023}, pages={4636–4659} }'
  chicago: 'Sengupta, Meghdut, Milad Alshomary, Ingrid Scharlau, and Henning Wachsmuth.
    “Modeling Highlighting of Metaphors in Multitask Contrastive Learning Paradigms.”
    In <i>Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023</i>,
    edited by Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, and Kalika Bali, 4636–4659. Singapore: Association
    for Computational Linguistics, 2023. <a href="https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308">https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308</a>.'
  ieee: 'M. Sengupta, M. Alshomary, I. Scharlau, and H. Wachsmuth, “Modeling Highlighting
    of Metaphors in Multitask Contrastive Learning Paradigms,” in <i>Findings of the
    Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023</i>, 2023, pp. 4636–4659,
    doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308">10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308</a>.'
  mla: 'Sengupta, Meghdut, et al. “Modeling Highlighting of Metaphors in Multitask
    Contrastive Learning Paradigms.” <i>Findings of the Association for Computational
    Linguistics: EMNLP 2023</i>, edited by Houda Bouamor et al., Association for Computational
    Linguistics, 2023, pp. 4636–4659, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308">10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308</a>.'
  short: '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.'
date_created: 2024-07-26T13:09:20Z
date_updated: 2024-07-26T13:19:53Z
department:
- _id: '600'
- _id: '660'
doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308
editor:
- first_name: Houda
  full_name: Bouamor, Houda
  last_name: Bouamor
- first_name: Juan
  full_name: Pino, Juan
  last_name: Pino
- first_name: Kalika
  full_name: Bali, Kalika
  last_name: Bali
language:
- iso: eng
page: 4636–4659
place: Singapore
project:
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318 - C4: TRR 318 - Subproject C4 - Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
publication: 'Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023'
publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
status: public
title: Modeling Highlighting of Metaphors in Multitask Contrastive Learning Paradigms
type: conference
user_id: '3900'
year: '2023'
...
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_id: '34067'
author:
- first_name: Meghdut
  full_name: Sengupta, Meghdut
  id: '99459'
  last_name: Sengupta
- first_name: Milad
  full_name: Alshomary, Milad
  id: '73059'
  last_name: Alshomary
- first_name: Henning
  full_name: Wachsmuth, Henning
  id: '3900'
  last_name: Wachsmuth
citation:
  ama: 'Sengupta M, Alshomary M, Wachsmuth H. Back to the Roots: Predicting the Source
    Domain of Metaphors using Contrastive Learning. In: <i>Proceedings of the 2022
    Workshop on Figurative Language Processing</i>. ; 2022.'
  apa: 'Sengupta, M., Alshomary, M., &#38; Wachsmuth, H. (2022). Back to the Roots:
    Predicting the Source Domain of Metaphors using Contrastive Learning. <i>Proceedings
    of the 2022 Workshop on Figurative Language Processing</i>.'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Sengupta_Alshomary_Wachsmuth_2022, title={Back to the Roots:
    Predicting the Source Domain of Metaphors using Contrastive Learning}, booktitle={Proceedings
    of the 2022 Workshop on Figurative Language Processing}, author={Sengupta, Meghdut
    and Alshomary, Milad and Wachsmuth, Henning}, year={2022} }'
  chicago: 'Sengupta, Meghdut, Milad Alshomary, and Henning Wachsmuth. “Back to the
    Roots: Predicting the Source Domain of Metaphors Using Contrastive Learning.”
    In <i>Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Figurative Language Processing</i>,
    2022.'
  ieee: 'M. Sengupta, M. Alshomary, and H. Wachsmuth, “Back to the Roots: Predicting
    the Source Domain of Metaphors using Contrastive Learning,” 2022.'
  mla: 'Sengupta, Meghdut, et al. “Back to the Roots: Predicting the Source Domain
    of Metaphors Using Contrastive Learning.” <i>Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop
    on Figurative Language Processing</i>, 2022.'
  short: 'M. Sengupta, M. Alshomary, H. Wachsmuth, in: Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop
    on Figurative Language Processing, 2022.'
date_created: 2022-11-14T08:49:07Z
date_updated: 2024-07-26T13:08:46Z
department:
- _id: '600'
- _id: '660'
language:
- iso: eng
project:
- _id: '127'
  name: 'TRR 318 - C4: TRR 318 - Subproject C4 - Metaphern als Werkzeug des Erklärens'
publication: Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Figurative Language Processing
status: public
title: 'Back to the Roots: Predicting the Source Domain of Metaphors using Contrastive
  Learning'
type: conference
user_id: '3900'
year: '2022'
...
