Metaphor Detection with Context Enhancement and Curriculum Learning (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Metaphor detection is a challenging task for natural language processing systems . previous work failed to adequately utilize internal and external semantic relationships . |
| Approach: | They propose a model that leverages the difference between literal and external meanings of words and sentences as the sentence external difference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves competitive performance across multiple datasets with improved convergence speed compared to other models. |
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