ChainNet: Structured Metaphor and Metonymy in WordNet
Computation and Language
2024-04-01 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
The senses of a word exhibit rich internal structure. In a typical lexicon, this structure is overlooked: a word's senses are encoded as a list without inter-sense relations. We present ChainNet, a lexical resource which for the first time explicitly identifies these structures. ChainNet expresses how senses in the Open English Wordnet are derived from one another: every nominal sense of a word is either connected to another sense by metaphor or metonymy, or is disconnected in the case of homonymy. Because WordNet senses are linked to resources which capture information about their meaning, ChainNet represents the first dataset of grounded metaphor and metonymy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2403.20308,
title = {ChainNet: Structured Metaphor and Metonymy in WordNet},
author = {Rowan Hall Maudslay and Simone Teufel and Francis Bond and James Pustejovsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.20308},
year = {2024}
}