| Challenge: | Figures of speech often deviate from their literal meanings to express deeper semantic implications. |
| Approach: | They propose a concept of figurative unit, which is the carrier of a figure, and build a Chinese corpus for Contextualized Figure Recognition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on 12 types of figures commonly used in Chinese . it shows that the proposed tasks are challenging for existing models . |
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