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Metonymy resolution as a classification task

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EMNLP '02: Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing - Volume 10

Pages 204 - 213

https://doi.org/10.3115/1118693.1118720

Published: 06 July 2002 Publication History

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We reformulate metonymy resolution as a classification task. This is motivated by the regularity of metonymic readings and makes general classification and word sense disambiguation methods available for metonymy resolution. We then present a case study for location names, presenting both a corpus of location names annotated for metonymy as well as experiments with a supervised classification algorithm on this corpus. We especially explore the contribution of features used in word sense disambiguation to metonymy resolution.

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