HypoGen: Hyperbole Generation with Commonsense and Counterfactual Knowledge

• Main Authors: Tian, Yufei, Sridhar, Arvind krishna, Peng, Nanyun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 10.09.2021
• Subjects: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science - Computation and Language; Computer Science - Learning

A hyperbole is an intentional and creative exaggeration not to be taken literally. Despite its ubiquity in daily life, the computational explorations of hyperboles are scarce. In this paper, we tackle the under-explored and challenging task: sentence-level hyperbole generation. We start with a repre...