Papers by Xingmao Zhang
CMIG: Conceptual Metaphor Theory-Inspired Framework for Metaphorical Image Generation (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing text-to-image systems often produce visually plausible but semantically literal outputs. |
| Approach: | They propose a structured prompting framework inspired by Conceptual Metaphor Theory . they propose to identify source–target mappings, filter projectable source attributes and select a visual realization strategy in a reproducible reasoning workflow. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves semantic alignment and controllability on metaphor prompts. |
DAGS: A Dependency-Based Dual-Attention and Global Semantic Improvement Framework for Metaphor Recognition (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for metaphor recognition ignore interference caused by literal annotations . et al., 2018: Metaphor recognition plays an important role in cognition and communication . |
| Approach: | They propose a dependency-based Dual-Attention and Global Semantic Improvement framework to improve metaphor recognition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can extract features from multiple information sources while improving on mainstream metaphor datasets. |