“We also tested the printer Epson EPL-5600. I liked the laser, as its printouts were excellent.”
Path Finder identifies paths such as (Laser Part-of Laser Printer Has-model Epson EPS-5600),(Epson Has-product Epson EPL-5600), (Epson EPS-5600 Producer-for-product Epson), etc. and forms paths that include ones that resolve metonymic relation between “Epson EPS-5600” and “laser” and anaphoric relation between “its” and “laser” (and ultimately between “its” and “Epson EPS-5600”)
Conclusions
Markert and Hahn’s approach resolves metonyms that systems relying solely on repair of intrasentential selection restriction violations do not address
Their approach focuses on treating literal and figurative language on an equal basis and maximizing:
Does not handle “logical metonymy” (where a noun stands for the activity described by an absent noun: “John began the book”) or metonymy that depends crucially on certain kinds of world knowledge (e.g., Christopher Marlowe saying “I don’t like Shakespeare”)
Planned future work includes obtaining new metonymic relationship patterns from corpora
