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Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. [**38** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**15** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/2020/#works) · [**781** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/2020/#works)**Online** where it was held**July 2020** when ## Most cited papers By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Report on the 2020 VUA and TOEFL Metaphor Detection Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/leong-2020-report-2020-vua-toefl-metaphor/)**Chee Wee (Ben) Leong, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Chris Hamill et al.*67 citations · our summary* 2. **[DeepMet: A Reading Comprehension Paradigm for Token-level Metaphor Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.4/)**Chuandong Su, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Xiaoxi Huang et al.*64 citations* 3. **[A Report on the 2020 Sarcasm Detection Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2020-report-2020-sarcasm-detection-shared/)**Debanjan Ghosh, Avijit Vajpayee, Smaranda Muresan*57 citations · our summary* 4. **[Sarcasm Detection in Tweets with BERT and GloVe Embeddings](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.7/)**Akshay Khatri, Pranav P*54 citations* 5. **[A Novel Hierarchical BERT Architecture for Sarcasm Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/srivastava-2020-novel-hierarchical-bert-architecture-sarcasm/)**Himani Srivastava, Vaibhav Varshney, Surabhi Kumari et al.*53 citations · our summary* 6. **[Context-Aware Sarcasm Detection Using BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baruah-2020-context-aware-sarcasm-detection-bert/)**Arup Baruah, Kaushik Das, Ferdous Barbhuiya et al.*50 citations · our summary* 7. **[Sarcasm Detection Using an Ensemble Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lemmens-2020-sarcasm-detection-ensemble-approach/)**Jens Lemmens, Ben Burtenshaw, Ehsan Lotfi et al.*49 citations · our summary* 8. **[Applying Transformers and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis approaches on Sarcasm Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ataei-2020-applying-transformers-aspect-based-sentiment/)**Taha Shangipour ataei, Soroush Javdan, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli*45 citations · our summary* 9. **[Detecting Sarcasm in Conversation Context Using Transformer-Based Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/avvaru-2020-detecting-sarcasm-conversation-context-transformer/)**Adithya Avvaru, Sanath Vobilisetty, Radhika Mamidi*38 citations · our summary* 10. **[Recognizing Euphemisms and Dysphemisms Using Sentiment Analysis](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.20/)**Christian Felt, Ellen Riloff*38 citations* ## All accepted papers (38) The most cited first; 15 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Report on the 2020 VUA and TOEFL Metaphor Detection Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/leong-2020-report-2020-vua-toefl-metaphor/)**Chee Wee (Ben) Leong, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Chris Hamill et al.*67 citations · our summary* 2. **[DeepMet: A Reading Comprehension Paradigm for Token-level Metaphor Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.4/)**Chuandong Su, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Xiaoxi Huang et al.*64 citations* 3. **[A Report on the 2020 Sarcasm Detection Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2020-report-2020-sarcasm-detection-shared/)**Debanjan Ghosh, Avijit Vajpayee, Smaranda Muresan*57 citations · our summary* 4. **[Sarcasm Detection in Tweets with BERT and GloVe Embeddings](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.7/)**Akshay Khatri, Pranav P*54 citations* 5. **[A Novel Hierarchical BERT Architecture for Sarcasm Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/srivastava-2020-novel-hierarchical-bert-architecture-sarcasm/)**Himani Srivastava, Vaibhav Varshney, Surabhi Kumari et al.*53 citations · our summary* 6. **[Context-Aware Sarcasm Detection Using BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baruah-2020-context-aware-sarcasm-detection-bert/)**Arup Baruah, Kaushik Das, Ferdous Barbhuiya et al.*50 citations · our summary* 7. **[Sarcasm Detection Using an Ensemble Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lemmens-2020-sarcasm-detection-ensemble-approach/)**Jens Lemmens, Ben Burtenshaw, Ehsan Lotfi et al.*49 citations · our summary* 8. **[Applying Transformers and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis approaches on Sarcasm Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ataei-2020-applying-transformers-aspect-based-sentiment/)**Taha Shangipour ataei, Soroush Javdan, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli*45 citations · our summary* 9. **[Detecting Sarcasm in Conversation Context Using Transformer-Based Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/avvaru-2020-detecting-sarcasm-conversation-context-transformer/)**Adithya Avvaru, Sanath Vobilisetty, Radhika Mamidi*38 citations · our summary* 10. **[Recognizing Euphemisms and Dysphemisms Using Sentiment Analysis](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.20/)**Christian Felt, Ellen Riloff*38 citations* 11. **[C-Net: Contextual Network for Sarcasm Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jena-2020-c-net-contextual-network-sarcasm/)**Amit Kumar Jena, Aman Sinha, Rohit Agarwal*32 citations · our summary* 12. **[A Transformer Approach to Contextual Sarcasm Detection in Twitter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gregory-2020-transformer-approach-contextual-sarcasm-detection/)**Hunter Gregory, Steven Li, Pouya Mohammadi et al.*31 citations · our summary* 13. **[IlliniMet: Illinois System for Metaphor Detection with Contextual and Linguistic Information](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.21/)**Hongyu Gong, Kshitij Gupta, Akriti Jain et al.*31 citations* 14. **[Transformer-based Context-aware Sarcasm Detection in Conversation Threads from Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dong-2020-transformer-based-context-aware-sarcasm/)**Xiangjue Dong, Changmao Li, Jinho D. Choi*28 citations · our summary* 15. **[Transformers on Sarcasm Detection with Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kumar-2020-transformers-sarcasm-detection-context/)**Amardeep Kumar, Vivek Anand*28 citations · our summary* 16. **[Sarcasm Detection using Context Separators in Online Discourse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dadu-2020-sarcasm-detection-context-separators-online/)**Tanvi Dadu, Kartikey Pant*27 citations · our summary* 17. **[Go Figure! Multi-task transformer-based architecture for metaphor detection using idioms: ETS team in 2020 metaphor shared task](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.32/)**Xianyang Chen, Chee Wee (Ben) Leong, Michael Flor et al.*26 citations* 18. **[Sarcasm Identification and Detection in Conversion Context using BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/a-2020-sarcasm-identification-detection-conversion-context/)**Kalaivani A., Thenmozhi D.*26 citations · our summary* 19. **[Neural Sarcasm Detection using Conversation Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jaiswal-2020-neural-sarcasm-detection-conversation-context/)**Nikhil Jaiswal*24 citations · our summary* 20. **[Metaphor Detection Using Contextual Word Embeddings From Transformers](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.34/)**Jerry Liu, Nathan O'Hara, Alexander Rubin et al.*23 citations* 21. **[Augmenting Data for Sarcasm Detection with Unlabeled Conversation Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2020-augmenting-data-sarcasm-detection-unlabeled/)**Hankyol Lee, Youngjae Yu, Gunhee Kim*17 citations · our summary* 22. **[Metaphor Detection using Context and Concreteness](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.30/)**Rowan Hall Maudslay, Tiago Pimentel, Ryan Cotterell et al.*16 citations* 23. **[Being neighbourly: Neural metaphor identification in discourse](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.31/)**Verna Dankers, Karan Malhotra, Gaurav Kudva et al.*15 citations* 24. **[Can Humor Prediction Datasets be used for Humor Generation? Humorous Headline Generation via Style Transfer](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.25/)**Orion Weller, Nancy Fulda, Kevin Seppi*15 citations* 25. **[Using Conceptual Norms for Metaphor Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.16/)**Mingyu Wan, Kathleen Ahrens, Emmanuele Chersoni et al.*15 citations* [See all 38 papers in Workshop on Figurative Language Processing 2020 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/2020/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (15) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[A Report on the 2020 VUA and TOEFL Metaphor Detection Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/leong-2020-report-2020-vua-toefl-metaphor/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Chee Wee (Ben) Leong, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Chris Hamill, et al.*2020 · 138 citations* 2. **[A Report on the 2020 Sarcasm Detection Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2020-report-2020-sarcasm-detection-shared/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Debanjan Ghosh, Avijit Vajpayee, Smaranda Muresan*2020 · 92 citations* 3. **[A Novel Hierarchical BERT Architecture for Sarcasm Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/srivastava-2020-novel-hierarchical-bert-architecture-sarcasm/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Himani Srivastava, Vaibhav Varshney, Surabhi Kumari, et al.*2020 · 62 citations* 4. **[Context-Aware Sarcasm Detection Using BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baruah-2020-context-aware-sarcasm-detection-bert/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Arup Baruah, Kaushik Das, Ferdous Barbhuiya, et al.*2020 · 59 citations* 5. **[Applying Transformers and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis approaches on Sarcasm Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ataei-2020-applying-transformers-aspect-based-sentiment/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Taha Shangipour ataei, Soroush Javdan, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli*2020 · 56 citations* 6. **[Sarcasm Detection Using an Ensemble Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lemmens-2020-sarcasm-detection-ensemble-approach/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Jens Lemmens, Ben Burtenshaw, Ehsan Lotfi, et al.*2020 · 56 citations* 7. **[Detecting Sarcasm in Conversation Context Using Transformer-Based Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/avvaru-2020-detecting-sarcasm-conversation-context-transformer/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Adithya Avvaru, Sanath Vobilisetty, Radhika Mamidi*2020 · 46 citations* 8. **[A Transformer Approach to Contextual Sarcasm Detection in Twitter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gregory-2020-transformer-approach-contextual-sarcasm-detection/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Hunter Gregory, Steven Li, Pouya Mohammadi, et al.*2020 · 38 citations* 9. **[C-Net: Contextual Network for Sarcasm Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jena-2020-c-net-contextual-network-sarcasm/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Amit Kumar Jena, Aman Sinha, Rohit Agarwal*2020 · 38 citations* 10. **[Sarcasm Detection using Context Separators in Online Discourse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dadu-2020-sarcasm-detection-context-separators-online/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Tanvi Dadu, Kartikey Pant*2020 · 37 citations* 11. **[Transformer-based Context-aware Sarcasm Detection in Conversation Threads from Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dong-2020-transformer-based-context-aware-sarcasm/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Xiangjue Dong, Changmao Li, Jinho D. Choi*2020 · 35 citations* 12. **[Transformers on Sarcasm Detection with Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kumar-2020-transformers-sarcasm-detection-context/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Amardeep Kumar, Vivek Anand*2020 · 34 citations* 13. **[Neural Sarcasm Detection using Conversation Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jaiswal-2020-neural-sarcasm-detection-conversation-context/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Nikhil Jaiswal*2020 · 32 citations* 14. **[Sarcasm Identification and Detection in Conversion Context using BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/a-2020-sarcasm-identification-detection-conversion-context/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Kalaivani A., Thenmozhi D.*2020 · 31 citations* 15. **[Augmenting Data for Sarcasm Detection with Unlabeled Conversation Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2020-augmenting-data-sarcasm-detection-unlabeled/) [Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)**Hankyol Lee, Youngjae Yu, Gunhee Kim*2020 · 27 citations* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Sentiment & emotion (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (15)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (15)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Beata Beigman Klebanov**1 work here · 138 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beata-beigman-klebanov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chee Wee (Ben) Leong**1 work here · 138 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chee-wee-ben-leong/) · [🧑‍🔬**Egon W. Stemle**1 work here · 138 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/egon-w-stemle/) · [🧑‍🔬**Debanjan Ghosh**1 work here · 92 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/debanjan-ghosh/) · [🧑‍🔬**Smaranda Muresan**1 work here · 92 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/smaranda-muresan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Saurabh Srivastava**1 work here · 62 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saurabh-srivastava/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kuntal Dey**1 work here · 59 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuntal-dey/) · [🧑‍🔬**Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli**1 work here · 56 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/behrouz-minaei-bidgoli/) · [🧑‍🔬**Walter Daelemans**1 work here · 56 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walter-daelemans/) · [🧑‍🔬**Radhika Mamidi**1 work here · 46 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/radhika-mamidi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Cynthia Rudin**1 work here · 38 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cynthia-rudin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jinho D. Choi**1 work here · 35 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinho-d-choi/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad** Hyderabad · India 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/international-institute-of-information-technology-hyderabad/) · [🤝**Educational Testing Service** Princeton · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/educational-testing-service/) · [🎓**Seoul National University** Seoul · South Korea 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/seoul-national-university/) · [🎓**University of Antwerp** Antwerp · Belgium 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-antwerp/) · [🎓**Emory University** Atlanta · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/emory-university/) · [🎓**Duke University** Durham · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/duke-university/) · [🎓**Netaji Subhas University of Technology** New Delhi · India 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/netaji-subhas-university-of-technology/) · [🔬**IBM Research - India** New Delhi · India 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-india/) · [🏢**Tata Consultancy Services** Pune · India 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/tata-consultancy-services/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Iran University of Science and Technology** Tehran · Iran 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/iran-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous Workshop on Figurative Language Processing 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/2018/) - [next → Workshop on Figurative Language Processing 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/2024/) - [↑ back to Workshop on Figurative Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/figlang/)