Challenge: despite its abundance, the computational explorations of hyperboles remain under-explored.
Approach: They propose a sentence-level hyperbole generation method that leverages commonsense and counterfactual inference to generate hyperbolic candidates based on the results.
Outcome: The proposed method generates hyperboles with high success rate, intensity, funniness, and creativity.

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