(RSA)²: A Rhetorical-Strategy-Aware Rational Speech Act Framework for Figurative Language Understanding (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing implementations of the Rational Speech Act (RSA) framework do not account for figurative expressions or require modeling the implicit motivations behind using figurativ language in a setting-specific way. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework which models figurative language use by considering a speaker's employed rhetorical strategy and a computational model which incorporates rhetorical strategies to support non-literal interpretation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework enables human-compatible interpretations of non-literal utterances without modeling speaker's motivations for being non-lative. |
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