Label-Enhanced Hierarchical Contextualized Representation for Sequential Metaphor Identification (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent approaches to identify metaphors ignore extra information from data, such as contextual information and broader discourse information. |
| Approach: | They propose a model augmented with hierarchical contextualized representation to extract more information from both sentence-level and discourse-level. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two tasks using a VUA dataset. |
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