Metonymy as a Cross-lingual Phenomenon
@inproceedings{Peters2003MetonymyAA,
title={Metonymy as a Cross-lingual Phenomenon},
author={Wim Peters},
booktitle={ACL 2003},
year={2003}
}The question of whether metonymy carries across languages has always been interesting for language representation and processing. Until now attempts to answer this question have always been based on small-scale analyses. With the advent of EuroWordNet (Vossen 1998), a multilingual thesaurus covering eight languages and organized along the same lines as WordNet (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/) we have a unique opportunity to research this question on a large scale. In this paper we…
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