DeepMet: A Reading Comprehension Paradigm for Token-level Metaphor Detection
Chuandong Su, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Xiaoxi Huang, Jiyi Li, Rongbo Wang, Zhiqun Chen
Abstract
Machine metaphor understanding is one of the major topics in NLP. Most of the recent attempts consider it as classification or sequence tagging task. However, few types of research introduce the rich linguistic information into the field of computational metaphor by leveraging powerful pre-training language models. We focus a novel reading comprehension paradigm for solving the token-level metaphor detection task which provides an innovative type of solution for this task. We propose an end-to-end deep metaphor detection model named DeepMet based on this paradigm. The proposed approach encodes the global text context (whole sentence), local text context (sentence fragments), and question (query word) information as well as incorporating two types of part-of-speech (POS) features by making use of the advanced pre-training language model. The experimental results by using several metaphor datasets show that our model achieves competitive results in the second shared task on metaphor detection.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.figlang-1.4
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Beata Beigman Klebanov, Ekaterina Shutova, Patricia Lichtenstein, Smaranda Muresan, Chee Wee, Anna Feldman, Debanjan Ghosh
- Venue:
- Fig-Lang
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 30–39
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.4
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.figlang-1.4
- Cite (ACL):
- Chuandong Su, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Xiaoxi Huang, Jiyi Li, Rongbo Wang, and Zhiqun Chen. 2020. DeepMet: A Reading Comprehension Paradigm for Token-level Metaphor Detection. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, pages 30–39, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- DeepMet: A Reading Comprehension Paradigm for Token-level Metaphor Detection (Su et al., Fig-Lang 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2020.figlang-1.4.pdf