Metaphor Detection in a Poetry Corpus
(2017) Proceedings of the Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanitie — ISBN: [978-1-945626-58-6], published
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- Metaphor is indispensable in poetry. It showcases the poet’s creativity, and contributes to the overall emotional pertinence of the poem while honing its specific rhetorical impact. Previous work on metaphor detection relies on either rule-based or statistical models, none of them applied to poetry. Our method focuses on metaphor detection in a poetry corpus. It combines rule-based and statistical models (word embeddings) to develop a new classification system. Our system has achieved a precision of 0.759 and a recall of 0.804 in identifying one type of metaphor in poetry.
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Kesarwani, V., Inkpen, D., Szpakowicz, S., & Tanasescu, C. (2017). Metaphor Detection in a Poetry Corpus. In Association for Computational Linguistics (ed.), Proceedings of the Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanitie. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w17-2201