Papers by Ali Akhgary
Comparative Study of Multilingual Idioms and Similes in Large Language Models (2025.coling-main)
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Paria Khoshtab, Danial Namazifard, Mostafa Masoudi, Ali Akhgary, Samin Mahdizadeh Sani, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh
| Challenge: | figurative language is one of the most challenging aspects of human language for LLMs to comprehend . |
| Approach: | They evaluate LLMs using two multilingual datasets on simile and idiom interpretation and two new evaluation sets for Persian . they find prompt engineering methods are generally effective, but their success varies by figurative type, language, and model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models perform better in simile and idiom interpretations across languages and figurative types. |