Metaphorical Paraphrase Generation: Feeding Metaphorical Language Models with Literal Texts
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This study presents a new approach to metaphorical paraphrase generation by masking literal tokens of literal sentences and unmasking them with metaphorical language models. Unlike similar studies, the proposed algorithm does not only focus on verbs but also on nouns and adjectives. Despite the fact that the transfer rate for the former is the highest (56 latter is feasible (24 system-generated metaphors are considered more creative and metaphorical than human-generated ones while when using our transferred metaphors for data augmentation improves the state of the art in metaphorical sentence classification by 3
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