Automatic Detection of Metonymic Expressions Using Associative Relation between Words
Takehiro Teraoka, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Jun Okamoto, Shun Ishizaki · Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence · 2013
Metonymy is a figure of speech, where one item's name represents another item which usually has a close relation with the first one. Metonymic expressions need to be correctly detected and interpreted because sentences including such expressions have different meanings from literal ones; computer systems may output inappropriate results in natural language processing.