mlsanityData to 7 Oct 2026

HypoGen: Hyperbole Generation with Commonsense and Counterfactual Knowledge

arXiv 2109.05097 ↗First posted 10 Sep 2021cs.CL cs.AI cs.LGcited by 22

Not on the map. Why?

Abstract (arXiv)

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 representative syntactic pattern for intensification and systematically study the semantic (commonsense and counterfactual) relationships between each component in such hyperboles. Next, we leverage the COMeT and reverse COMeT models to do commonsense and counterfactual inference. We then generate multiple hyperbole candidates based on our findings from the pattern, and train neural classifiers to rank and select high-quality hyperboles. Automatic and human evaluations show that our generation method is able to generate hyperboles creatively with high success rate and intensity scores.

Key facts. Cited by 22 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 13 of its 29 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 10 Sep 2021.

Builds on

13 of 29 references.

References · 13

  1. 2018BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understandingcited by 40,204
  2. 2019BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehensioncited by 5,874
  3. 2019BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERTcited by 5,462
  4. 2016ConceptNet 5.5: An Open Multilingual Graph of General Knowledgecited by 1,065
  5. 2019Universal Adversarial Triggers for Attacking and Analyzing NLPcited by 709
  6. 2019The Woman Worked as a Babysitter: On Biases in Language Generationcited by 540
  7. 2019COMET: Commonsense Transformers for Automatic Knowledge Graph Constructioncited by 450
  8. 2019Improving Grammatical Error Correction via Pre-Training a Copy-Augmented Architecture with Unlabeled Datacited by 50
  9. 2021MERMAID: Metaphor Generation with Symbolism and Discriminative Decodingcited by 49
  10. 2019Pun Generation with Surprisecited by 37
  11. 2020R3: Reverse, Retrieve, and Rank for Sarcasm Generation with Commonsense Knowledgecited by 32
  12. 2021Metaphor Generation with Conceptual Mappingscited by 32
1 more
  1. 2019Pun-GAN: Generative Adversarial Network for Pun Generationcited by 18

Built on by

Cited by year (2026 to 7 Oct)

Citing papers per year: 2021: 1; 2022: 5; 2023: 7; 2024: 6; 2025: 2; 2026: 1.

22 papers.

Sort:

By area:

  1. 2023Are Personalized Stochastic Parrots More Dangerous? Evaluating Persona Biases in Dialogue Systemscited by 37
  2. 2022AmbiPun: Generating Humorous Puns with Ambiguous Contextcited by 21
  3. 2022VLC-BERT: Visual Question Answering with Contextualized Commonsense Knowledgecited by 20
  4. 2021MOVER: Mask, Over-generate and Rank for Hyperbole Generationcited by 13
  5. 2024Failure Modes of LLMs for Causal Reasoning on Narrativescited by 12
  6. 2023ParaAMR: A Large-Scale Syntactically Diverse Paraphrase Dataset by AMR Back-Translationcited by 11
  7. 2023A Match Made in Heaven: A Multi-task Framework for Hyperbole and Metaphor Detectioncited by 10
  8. 2024Creativity in AI: Progresses and Challengescited by 7
  9. 2022PANCETTA: Phoneme Aware Neural Completion to Elicit Tongue Twisters Automaticallycited by 6
  10. 2023Creative Data Generation: A Review Focusing on Text and Poetrycited by 5
  11. 2025Enhancing Hyperbole and Metaphor Detection with Their Bidirectional Dynamic Interaction and Emotion Knowledgecited by 5
  12. 2025Who's Laughing Now? An Overview of Computational Humour Generation and Explanationcited by 5
10 more
  1. 2022Unsupervised Syntactically Controlled Paraphrase Generation with Abstract Meaning Representationscited by 4
  2. 2023PIP: Parse-Instructed Prefix for Syntactically Controlled Paraphrase Generationcited by 4
  3. 2023Multilingual Multi-Figurative Language Detectioncited by 3
  4. 2024A Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change with Social Science Applicationscited by 3
  5. 2022Multi-Figurative Language Generationcited by 2
  6. 2024REFFLY: Melody-Constrained Lyrics Editing Modelcited by 2
  7. 2023Implicit and Explicit Commonsense for Multi-sentence Video Captioningcited by 1
  8. 2026MetFuse: Figurative Fusion between Metonymy and Metaphorcited by 1
  9. 2024Figuratively Speaking: Authorship Attribution via Multi-Task Figurative Language Modelingcited by 0
  10. 2024Computational Approaches to the Detection of Lesser-Known Rhetorical Figures: A Systematic Survey and Research Challengescited by 0