# Exploring Metaphorical Senses and Word Representations for Identifying Metonyms

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04515 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1508.04515/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 19 Aug 2015.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

A metonym is a word with a figurative meaning, similar to a metaphor. Because metonyms are closely related to metaphors, we apply features that are used successfully for metaphor recognition to the task of detecting metonyms. On the ACL SemEval 2007 Task 8 data with gold standard metonym annotations, our system achieved 86.45% accuracy on the location metonyms. Our code can be found on GitHub.