CATE: A Contrastive Pre-trained Model for Metaphor Detection with Semi-supervised Learning (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for metaphor detection require a large amount of labeled data and are not linguistically-based. |
| Approach: | They propose a ContrAstive pre-Trained modEl (CATE) for metaphor detection with semi-supervised learning using a pre-trained model to obtain a contextual representation of target words. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on several benchmark datasets and achieves better performance against state-of-the-art models. |
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