A Corpus of Metaphor Novelty Scores for Syntactically-Related Word Pairs (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing data on metaphor novelty are limited, making it difficult to perform research on this topic. |
| Approach: | They propose to release a corpus of metaphor novelty scores for syntactically related word pairs . they establish a performance benchmark to which future researchers can compare . |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus of metaphor novelty scores is compared to other datasets . it performs better than chance or nave strategies, the authors show . |
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