NEW TRENDS IN METAPHOR AND LLMs
Online Workshop - 5th March 2026
The online workshop “New Trends in Metaphor and LLMs” will explore the interplay between metaphor research and generative language models. Metaphors offer a privileged lens for understanding how language is structured and how human experience is conceptualized and communicated, yet their complexity has long challenged natural language processing (NLP). Recent progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) suggests that these tools are becoming increasingly capable of processing even such nuanced linguistic phenomena.
This workshop will examine how state-of-the-art automatic modeling techniques can be used to detect, interpret, map, and rate metaphors, as well as how metaphors can be leveraged to probe and assess the linguistic capabilities of LLMs.
This workshop will examine how state-of-the-art automatic modeling techniques can be used to detect, interpret, map, and rate metaphors, as well as how metaphors can be leveraged to probe and assess the linguistic capabilities of LLMs.
ONLINE only
Join the workshop via Zoom using this link.
5th March 2026
9.30a.m. – 1.00p.m. CET (Italian time)
The event is organized is organized by the Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics Lab at IUSS Pavia (Valentina Bambini, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Veronica Mangiaterra, Ginevra Martinelli)
E-mail address for information about the conference: AGGIUNGI MAIL GIUSTA@iusspavia.it