Verifying Claims About Metaphors with Large-Scale Automatic Metaphor Identification

arXiv:2404.01029v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: There are several linguistic claims about situations where words are more likely to be used as metaphors. However, few studies have sought to verify such claims with large corpora. This study entails a large-scale, corpus-based analysis of certain existing claims about verb metaphors, by applying metaphor detection to sentences extracted from Common Crawl and using the statistics obtained from the results. The verification results indicate that the direct objects of verbs used as metaphors tend …

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