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Sara Bartl
@sbartl.bsky.social
PhD student @ University of Birmingham
Researching Cognitive Linguistics through Language Models
Reposted by Sara Bartl
How good are LLMs at identifying and tagging metaphors in text? Turns out, pretty good!

In our new study, we ask 10 different open- and closed-source LLMs to label all metaphorical expressions in a dataset of film reviews using and XML tags.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.24866
Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning
Metaphor is a pervasive feature of discourse and a powerful lens for examining cognition, emotion, and ideology. Large-scale analysis, however, has been constrained by the need for manual annotation d...
arxiv.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Our position paper on Sociolinguistics for Language Modelling is out!
New paper out today in Frontiers in AI!

The sociolinguistic foundations of language modelling

We argue sociolinguistics provides a foundation for understanding LLMs and addressing many challenges

www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

doi.org/10.3389/frai...

techxplore.com/news/2025-01...
Frontiers | The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling
www.frontiersin.org
January 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM