著者

村田 真樹 山本 専 黒橋 禎夫 井佐原 均 長尾 真

出版者

一般社団法人 人工知能学会

雑誌

人工知能 (ISSN:21882266)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.15, no.3, pp.503-510, 2000-05-01 (Released:2020-09-29)

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In conventional studies, metonymy interpretation has been carried out by using a hand-built database that includes relationships between words concerned with metonymy, such as a special knowledge base of metonymy and a semantic network. However, these relationships between words are diverse, and it is difficult to manually make a detailed database. Therefore, in this paper we interpret metonymy by using examples in the form of noun phrases such as "Noun X no Noun Y (Noun Y of Noun X)" and "Noun X Noun Y, " instead of a hand-built database. This method has two advantages. One is that a hand-built database of metonymy is not necessary because we use examples. The second is that we can interpret newly-coined metonymies by using a new corpus. In experiments using this method on 23 metonymy sentences taken from textbooks, we correctly judged 17 sentences to be metonymy sentences and correctly interpreted 7 of them.