MetaphorShare: A Dynamic Collaborative Repository of Open Metaphor Datasets

TL;DR

MetaphorShare is a centralized online platform that consolidates diverse metaphor datasets, promoting easier sharing, accessibility, and standardization to advance metaphor research and NLP applications.

Contribution

This paper introduces MetaphorShare, a novel website that unifies and makes accessible various metaphor datasets in multiple languages, fostering collaboration and resource sharing.

Findings

Provides a centralized repository for metaphor datasets

Enables easy upload, download, and search functionalities

Encourages sharing and standardization of metaphor resources

Abstract

The metaphor studies community has developed numerous valuable labelled corpora in various languages over the years. Many of these resources are not only unknown to the NLP community, but are also often not easily shared among the researchers. Both in human sciences and in NLP, researchers could benefit from a centralised database of labelled resources, easily accessible and unified under an identical format. To facilitate this, we present MetaphorShare, a website to integrate metaphor datasets making them open and accessible. With this effort, our aim is to encourage researchers to share and upload more datasets in any language in order to facilitate metaphor studies and the development of future metaphor processing NLP systems. The website has four main functionalities: upload, download, search and label metaphor datasets. It is accessible at www.metaphorshare.com.