Challenge: Existing methods to identify metaphors use contextual information extracted by transformers for classifications directly.
Approach: They propose to use structure information extraction to transform the classification task into a keywords-extraction task and to use it to expand the limited datasets.
Outcome: The proposed model obtains competitive results compared with state-of-the-art methods .

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