Metonymy Interpretation Using X NO Y Examples

TL;DR

This paper presents an example-based method for interpreting metonymy that leverages a corpus of examples without requiring a hand-crafted database, achieving 66% precision in experiments.

Contribution

The method introduces a corpus-based approach to metonymy interpretation that adapts to new sentences without manual database creation.

Findings

Achieved 66% interpretation precision.

Utilizes examples in the form 'Noun X no Noun Y'.

Does not require hand-built metonymy databases.

Abstract

We developed on example-based method of metonymy interpretation. One advantages of this method is that a hand-built database of metonymy is not necessary because it instead uses examples in the form ``Noun X no Noun Y (Noun Y of Noun X).'' Another advantage is that we will be able to interpret newly-coined metonymic sentences by using a new corpus. We experimented with metonymy interpretation and obtained a precision rate of 66% when using this method.