Comparisons are phrases that express the likeness of two entities. They are usually marked by linguistic patterns, among which the most discussed are X is like Y and as X as Y. We propose a simple slot-based dependency-driven description of such patterns that refines the phrase structure approach of Niculae and Yaneva (2013). We introduce a simple similarity-based approach that proves useful for measuring the degree of figurativeness of a comparison and therefore in simile (figurative comparison) identification. We propose an evaluation method for this task on the VUAMC metaphor corpus.
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