Detecting Figurative Word Occurrences Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Aleksander Wawer, Małgorzata Marciniak · 2018
The paper addresses the detection of figurative usage of words in English text.The chosen method was to use neural nets fed by pre-trained word embeddings.The obtained results show that simple solutions, based on word embeddings only, are comparable to complex solutions, using additional information as a result of taggers or a psycholinguistic database.This approach can be easily applied to other languages, even less-studied, for which we only have raw texts available.