Comparison pattern matching and creative simile recognition

摘要

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.