HypoGen: Hyperbole Generation with Commonsense and Counterfactual Knowledge (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| 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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