AI RESEARCH
Exploring Concreteness Through a Figurative Lens
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.18296v1 Announce Type: new Static concreteness ratings are widely used in NLP, yet a word's concreteness can shift with context, especially in figurative language such as metaphor, where common concrete nouns can take abstract interpretations. While such shifts are evident from context, it remains unclear how LLMs understand concreteness internally.