MetaPro: A computational metaphor processing model for text pre-processing

A Survey on Computational Metaphor Processing Techniques: From Identification, Interpretation, Generation to Application

“…Property extraction is a frequent manifestation of noun metaphor interpretation, as we have seen that the properties of source and target nouns can be represented as adjectives. The work of Mao et al (2022a) can interpret metaphors in verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and MWEs, which significantly improves the functionality and usability of a metaphor interpretation system in different application scenarios. Table 12 illustrates the features used in interpretation studies.…”

“…The motivation was that Gated Bridging Mechanism could filter out useless information and receive supportive information from an auxiliary task. Their model has been embedded in MetaPro (Mao et al, 2022a) as the metaphor identification module, achieving state-of-the-art results in both open-class word-based and all-PoS-based metaphor identification tasks.…”

“…Later, Mao et al (2022a) extended this method in MetaPro by using a pre-trained language model, instead of Word2Vec. Mao et al (2022a) demonstrated that metaphor processing can also improve state-of-the-art sentiment analysis classifiers.…”

“…More importantly, end-to-end metaphor processing techniques have made significant progress in the past years, which greatly enhances the usefulness of metaphor processing techniques in downstream applications and interdisciplinary research. For example, Mao et al (2022a) proposed an end-to-end metaphor processing model (MetaPro) on all open-class words. The latest version (MetaPro online 2 ) includes the functions, such as metaphor identification, interpretation, and concept mapping.…”

“…MetaPro enables a metaphor processing system to be conveniently applied in downstream tasks in a data pre-processing fashion. Thus, MetaPro has been employed for enhancing sentiment analysis (Mao et al, 2022a) and to detect mental health status, such as depression (Han et al, 2022). Apart from metaphor identification, linguistic and conceptual metaphor interpretation, metaphor processing has developed numerous works on metaphor generation (Yu and Wan, 2019;Chakrabarty et al, 2021;Stowe et al, 2021b) and application (Zheng et al, 2019;Cabot et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2021a).…”