Being neighbourly: Neural metaphor identification in discourse

Verna Dankers, Karan Malhotra, Gaurav Kudva, Volodymyr Medentsiy, Ekaterina Shutova


Abstract
Existing approaches to metaphor processing typically rely on local features, such as immediate lexico-syntactic contexts or information within a given sentence. However, a large body of corpus-linguistic research suggests that situational information and broader discourse properties influence metaphor production and comprehension. In this paper, we present the first neural metaphor processing architecture that models a broader discourse through the use of attention mechanisms. Our models advance the state of the art on the all POS track of the 2018 VU Amsterdam metaphor identification task. The inclusion of discourse-level information yields further significant improvements.
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2020.figlang-1.31
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing
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July
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2020
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Online
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Beata Beigman Klebanov, Ekaterina Shutova, Patricia Lichtenstein, Smaranda Muresan, Chee Wee, Anna Feldman, Debanjan Ghosh
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Fig-Lang
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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227–234
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.31
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10.18653/v1/2020.figlang-1.31
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Verna Dankers, Karan Malhotra, Gaurav Kudva, Volodymyr Medentsiy, and Ekaterina Shutova. 2020. Being neighbourly: Neural metaphor identification in discourse. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, pages 227–234, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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