Computational Approaches to Figurative Language

Citation

Birte Loenneker-Rodman and Srini Narayanan (2012). Computational Models of Figurative Language, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Psycholinguistics (2012). Spivey, M., Joannisse, M., McRae, K. (eds.), Cambridge Univeristy Press, Cambridge.

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Introduction

Metonymy

Definition

Challenges

Corpus Study

Computational Approaches to Metonymy

Metonymy and inference

Paraphrasing metonymy

Metonymy recognition as Word Sense Disambiguation

Metaphor

Conceptual Metaphor

Computational Models of Metaphor

Metaphor and Inference

Metaphor recognition from Text

Acquisition and Representation of Metaphors

The road ahead

Other Figurative Language

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