Simile

People rarely articulate explicitly what a na- tive speaker of a language is already assumed to know. So to acquire the stereotypical knowledge that underpins much of what is said …...

A simile is a comparison between two essentially unlike things, such as “Jane swims like a dolphin”. Similes often ex- press a positive or negative sentiment to- ward something, but …...

A simile is a figure of speech comparing two fundamentally different things. Sometimes, a simile will explain the basis of a comparison by explicitly mentioning a shared property. For example, …...

AbstractHumans often employ figurative language use in communication, including during interactions with dialog systems. Thus, it is important for real-world dialog systems to be able to handle popular figurative language …...

Abstract“A simile is an important linguistic phenomenon in daily communication and an important taskin natural language processing (NLP). In recent years, pre-trained language models (PLMs) haveachieved great success in NLP …...