The purpose of the current paper is to present an on- tological analysis to the identification of aparticular type of prepositional natural language phrases called figures of speech [1] via theidentification of inconsis- tencies in ontological concepts. Prepositional noun phrases are usedwidely in a multiplicity of domains to describe real world events and activities. However, oneaspect that makes a prepositional noun phrase poetical is that the latter suggests a semantic relationshipbetween concepts that does not exist in the real world. The current paper discusses how aset of rules based on Wordnet classes and an ontology repre- senting human behavior andproperties, can be used to identify figures of speech. It also addresses the problem of inconsistencyresulting from the assertion of figures of speech at various levels identifying the problems involvedin their representation. Finally, it discusses how a contextualized approach might help to resolvethis problem.
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