Beck, Nils Peer (2021)
Transfer Learning for Conceptual Metaphor Generation.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00019359
Bachelorarbeit, Erstveröffentlichung, Verlagsversion
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)
Metaphor can be understood as a linguistic phenomenon in which concepts from one domain – for instance, Money – behave the way concepts from a different domain – for instance, Liquid – usually do. “She drained her bank account” constitutes an example of a metaphorical expression, according to Conceptual Metaphor Theory. In this thesis, we address the task of metaphor generation, i.e., paraphrasing an input text into a metaphorical output text. First, we build a novel data set of more than 300,000 metaphorical sentence pairs, anchored in MetaNet and FrameNet, two lexical databases. Then, we fine-tune T5, a large pre-trained English language model, on metaphor generation in two different set-ups: Free metaphor generation, where the language model is expected to implicitly understand how to transform the input text, and controlled metaphor generation, where the language model is explicitly told what kind of metaphor to generate. We compare our fine-tuned models to related work in the field of metaphor generation, reporting promising results. While no clear favorite emerges along all evaluation criteria, our models perform particularly well on unseen metaphors. We also show that our free generation model produces more fluent and semantically similar text, while our controlled model produces more metaphorical text, suggesting differing use cases for both models. We make our code, our data set, and our fine-tuned models publicly available for further research.
Typ des Eintrags: | Bachelorarbeit | ||||
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Erschienen: | 2021 | ||||
Autor(en): | Beck, Nils Peer | ||||
Art des Eintrags: | Erstveröffentlichung | ||||
Titel: | Transfer Learning for Conceptual Metaphor Generation | ||||
Sprache: | Englisch | ||||
Publikationsjahr: | 2021 | ||||
Ort: | Darmstadt | ||||
Kollation: | 43 Seiten | ||||
Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: | 6 Juli 2021 | ||||
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00019359 | ||||
URL / URN: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/19359 | ||||
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | Metaphor can be understood as a linguistic phenomenon in which concepts from one domain – for instance, Money – behave the way concepts from a different domain – for instance, Liquid – usually do. “She drained her bank account” constitutes an example of a metaphorical expression, according to Conceptual Metaphor Theory. In this thesis, we address the task of metaphor generation, i.e., paraphrasing an input text into a metaphorical output text. First, we build a novel data set of more than 300,000 metaphorical sentence pairs, anchored in MetaNet and FrameNet, two lexical databases. Then, we fine-tune T5, a large pre-trained English language model, on metaphor generation in two different set-ups: Free metaphor generation, where the language model is expected to implicitly understand how to transform the input text, and controlled metaphor generation, where the language model is explicitly told what kind of metaphor to generate. We compare our fine-tuned models to related work in the field of metaphor generation, reporting promising results. While no clear favorite emerges along all evaluation criteria, our models perform particularly well on unseen metaphors. We also show that our free generation model produces more fluent and semantically similar text, while our controlled model produces more metaphorical text, suggesting differing use cases for both models. We make our code, our data set, and our fine-tuned models publicly available for further research. |
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Status: | Verlagsversion | ||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-193599 | ||||
Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): | 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft > 004 Informatik 400 Sprache > 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
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Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 20 Fachbereich Informatik 20 Fachbereich Informatik > Ubiquitäre Wissensverarbeitung |
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Hinterlegungsdatum: | 10 Sep 2021 12:21 | ||||
Letzte Änderung: | 21 Sep 2021 13:59 | ||||
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Datum der mündlichen Prüfung / Verteidigung / mdl. Prüfung: | 6 Juli 2021 | ||||
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