Exploring Metaphorical Senses and Word Representations for Identifying Metonyms

08/19/2015

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by   Wei Zhang, et al.

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A metonym is a word with a figurative meaning, similar to a metaphor. Because metonyms are closely related to metaphors, we apply features that are used successfully for metaphor recognition to the task of detecting metonyms. On the ACL SemEval 2007 Task 8 data with gold standard metonym annotations, our system achieved 86.45 GitHub.