Metaphor Generation with Conceptual Mappings

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01228v1
• Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 15:27:05 GMT
• Title: Metaphor Generation with Conceptual Mappings
• Authors: Kevin Stowe, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Nanyun Peng, Smaranda Muresan, Iryna Gurevych
• Abstract summary: We aim to generate a metaphoric sentence given a literal expression by replacing relevant verbs. We propose to control the generation process by encoding conceptual mappings between cognitive domains. We show that the unsupervised CM-Lex model is competitive with recent deep learning metaphor generation systems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Generating metaphors is a difficult task as it requires understanding nuanced relationships between abstract concepts. In this paper, we aim to generate a metaphoric sentence given a literal expression by replacing relevant verbs. Guided by conceptual metaphor theory, we propose to control the generation process by encoding conceptual mappings between cognitive domains to generate meaningful metaphoric expressions. To achieve this, we develop two methods: 1) using FrameNet-based embeddings to learn mappings between domains and applying them at the lexical level (CM-Lex), and 2) deriving source/target pairs to train a controlled seq-to-seq generation model (CM-BART). We assess our methods through automatic and human evaluation for basic metaphoricity and conceptual metaphor presence. We show that the unsupervised CM-Lex model is competitive with recent deep learning metaphor generation systems, and CM-BART outperforms all other models both in automatic and human evaluations.

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