Combining the Attention Network and Semantic Representation for Chinese Verb Metaphor Identification

Metaphor is the central issue of language and thinking. Metaphor identification plays a significant preliminary role in the field of machine translation, reading comprehension, and automatic summarization, making it a focus of natural language processing. Recently, research into Chinese verb metapho...

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Main Authors: Dongyu Zhang, Hongfei Lin, Xikai Liu, Heting Zhang, Shaowu Zhang
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8782559/
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author Dongyu Zhang
Hongfei Lin
Xikai Liu
Heting Zhang
Shaowu Zhang
author_facet Dongyu Zhang
Hongfei Lin
Xikai Liu
Heting Zhang
Shaowu Zhang
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description Metaphor is the central issue of language and thinking. Metaphor identification plays a significant preliminary role in the field of machine translation, reading comprehension, and automatic summarization, making it a focus of natural language processing. Recently, research into Chinese verb metaphor identification has become a widespread concern. The main problem is that the usage of semantic resources is relatively simple, and there is a lack of deep semantic support. Therefore, this paper proposes a word representation method suitable for metaphor classification tasks, which combines the traditional word vector with structural information from the Synonym Thesaurus, so that the word vector can contain the abstraction degree of the word in the metaphor. On this basis, we propose a verb metaphor attention network based on subject-predicate and verb-object relationships, which gives full consideration to the global syntactic information when we perform LSTM encoding and calculate the weight of each word. At the same time, it can facilitate the understanding of literalness and non-literalness. The experimental results show that the identification effect improves on the existing results, indicating that word representation combining semantic resources and attention network can improve the verb metaphor identification performance.
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spelling doaj.art-2abb881a5af04d10a567f5e0680f263f2022-12-21T19:56:52ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-01713710313711010.1109/ACCESS.2019.29321368782559Combining the Attention Network and Semantic Representation for Chinese Verb Metaphor IdentificationDongyu Zhang0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7683-5560Hongfei Lin1Xikai Liu2Heting Zhang3Shaowu Zhang4School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaSchool of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaMetaphor is the central issue of language and thinking. Metaphor identification plays a significant preliminary role in the field of machine translation, reading comprehension, and automatic summarization, making it a focus of natural language processing. Recently, research into Chinese verb metaphor identification has become a widespread concern. The main problem is that the usage of semantic resources is relatively simple, and there is a lack of deep semantic support. Therefore, this paper proposes a word representation method suitable for metaphor classification tasks, which combines the traditional word vector with structural information from the Synonym Thesaurus, so that the word vector can contain the abstraction degree of the word in the metaphor. On this basis, we propose a verb metaphor attention network based on subject-predicate and verb-object relationships, which gives full consideration to the global syntactic information when we perform LSTM encoding and calculate the weight of each word. At the same time, it can facilitate the understanding of literalness and non-literalness. The experimental results show that the identification effect improves on the existing results, indicating that word representation combining semantic resources and attention network can improve the verb metaphor identification performance.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8782559/Attention networkmetaphor identificationmetaphor datasetsemantic representation
spellingShingle Dongyu Zhang
Hongfei Lin
Xikai Liu
Heting Zhang
Shaowu Zhang
Combining the Attention Network and Semantic Representation for Chinese Verb Metaphor Identification
IEEE Access
Attention network
metaphor identification
metaphor dataset
semantic representation
title Combining the Attention Network and Semantic Representation for Chinese Verb Metaphor Identification
title_full Combining the Attention Network and Semantic Representation for Chinese Verb Metaphor Identification
title_fullStr Combining the Attention Network and Semantic Representation for Chinese Verb Metaphor Identification
title_full_unstemmed Combining the Attention Network and Semantic Representation for Chinese Verb Metaphor Identification
title_short Combining the Attention Network and Semantic Representation for Chinese Verb Metaphor Identification
title_sort combining the attention network and semantic representation for chinese verb metaphor identification
topic Attention network
metaphor identification
metaphor dataset
semantic representation
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8782559/
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