| Challenge: | Existing methods for metaphor detection use the aggregated meaning of a word to approximate its basic meaning. |
| Approach: | They propose a method which models the basic meaning of a word based on literal annotations and compares this with the contextual meaning in a target sentence to identify metaphors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art method significantly in the F1 score and even reaches the theoretical upper bound on the VUA18 benchmark. |
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