Using Gaussian Mixture models to detect figurative language in context

  • Authors:
  • Linlin Li;Caroline Sporleder

  • Affiliations:
  • Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany;Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a Gaussian Mixture model for detecting different types of figurative language in context. We show that this model performs well when the parameters are estimated in an unsupervised fashion using EM. Performance can be improved further by estimating the parameters from a small annotated data set.