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… CONTINUE READING
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