For the metonymy resolution task at SemEval-2007, the use of a memory-based learner to train classifiers for the identification of metonymic location names is investigated. Metonymy is resolved on different levels of granularity, differentiating between literal and non-literal readings on the coarse level; literal, metonymic, and mixed readings on the medium level; and a number of classes cover...

Metonymic words have multiple related meanings, such as college, as in the building ("John walked into the college") or the educational institution ("John was promoted by the college"). Most researchers have found support for direct access models of metonymy but one recent study, Lowder and Gordon (2013), found delayed reading times for metonymic sentences relative to literal controls, in suppo...

Metonymy recognition is generally approached with complex algorithms that rely heavily on the manual annotation of training and test data. This paper will relieve this complexity in two ways. First, it will show that the results of the current learning algorithms can be replicated by the ‘lazy’ algorithm of Memory-Based Learning. This approach simply stores all training instances to its memory ...

The tt,ee main features of tile computational approach are that: (a) literahtess, metaphor, and anomaly share common features and form a group distinct from metonymy which has characteristics that requires a quite different treatment; (b) chains of metonymies occur, supporting an observation by Reddy (1979); and (c) metonymies can co-occur with instances of either literalness, metaphor, or anom...

Logical metonymies (begin the book→ reading) involve the understanding of covert events. Lexicalist approaches claim that the metonymy arises from a type clash (event-selecting verb + entity-denoting object), and place (limited) covert event information in the noun’s lexical entry. Recent work suggests that people exploit generalized knowledge about typical events and their participants (quanti...

This paper shows how the syntactic strategies in assigning informational prominence in clause structures can be exploited in phrases. The thematic approach to phrases will shed clear light on the marked word order of elements in noun phrase (NP) and on how this allows increasing the degree of prominence of a component in NP. This is a general claim about different thematic strategies in NP whic...

In this paper I want to show why metaphor and metonymy are, on the one hand side, two distinct types of generating new meanings for existing expressions, and why, on the other hand, there are many cases which can either been viewed as metaphor or as metonymy, without the one way of understanding excluding the other. After having given a general characterization of metaphoric and metonymic conce...

This study aimed to identify the types of figurative language used in poems about COVID-19 and explain messages these poems. research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative methods. The data were taken from five on Internet. analyzed Leech’s theory Nurgiyantoro’s meanings language. There eight found poems: metaphor (14.5 %), personification (13.3 simile (16.9%), hyperbole (13.3%), irony...

In theoretical linguistics, logical metonymy is defined as the combination of an event-subcategorizing verb with an entity-denoting direct object (e.g., The author began the book), so that the interpretation of the VP requires the retrieval of a covert event (e.g., writing). Psycholinguistic studies have revealed extra processing costs for logical metonymy, a phenomenon generally explained with...