A statistical approach to the processing of metonymy

  • Authors:
  • Masao Utiyama;Masaki Murata;Hitoshi Isahara

  • Affiliations:
  • Communications Research Laboratory, MPT, Hyogo, Japan;Communications Research Laboratory, MPT, Hyogo, Japan;Communications Research Laboratory, MPT, Hyogo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper describes a statistical approach to the interpretation of metonymy. A metonymy is received as an input, then its possible interpretations are ranked by applying a statistical measure. The method has been tested experimentally. It correctly interpreted 53 out of 75 metonymies in Japanese.