MelBERT: Metaphor Detection via Contextualized Late Interaction using Metaphorical Identification Theories (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have developed computational models to recognize metaphorical words in sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that leverages contextualized word representation and linguistic metaphor identification theories to detect whether the target word is metaphorical. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models on four benchmark datasets . it leverages contextualized word representation and linguistic metaphor identification theories to detect whether the target word is metaphorical. |
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