How to Record the Meaning of Figurative Language

Indrek Jentson


Abstract
This paper focuses on the question of what kind of data needs to be recorded about figurative language, in order to capture the essential meaning of the text and to enable us to re-create a synonymous text, based on that data. A short review of the best known systems of semantic annotation will be presented and their suitability for the task will be analyzed. Also, a method that could be used for representing the meaning of the idioms, metaphors and metonymy in the data model will be considered.
Anthology ID:
2015.lilt-10.3
Volume:
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Volume 10, 2015
Month:
Year:
2015
Address:
Venue:
LILT
SIG:
Publisher:
CSLI Publications
Note:
Pages:
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2015.lilt-10.3
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Indrek Jentson. 2015. How to Record the Meaning of Figurative Language. In Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Volume 10, 2015. CSLI Publications.
Cite (Informal):
How to Record the Meaning of Figurative Language (Jentson, LILT 2015)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/2015.lilt-10.3.pdf