Generating similes effortlessly like a Pro: A Style Transfer Approach for Simile Generation

By arXiv.org - 2020-10-06

Description

Literary tropes, from poetry to stories, are at the crux of human imagination and communication. Figurative language such as a simile go beyond plain expressions to give readers new insights and inspi ...

Summary

  • Generating similes effortlessly like a Pro: Literary tropes, from poetry to stories, are at the crux of human imagination and communication.
  • To this end, we first propose a method to automatically construct a parallel corpus by transforming a large number of similes collected from Reddit to their literal counterpart using structured common sense knowledge.
  • of the times, and three baseline systems including a recent metaphor generation model \textit{71\%}\footnote{We average 82\% ,63\% and 68\% for three baselines.}

 

Topics

  1. NLP (0.25)
  2. Backend (0.11)
  3. UX (0.1)

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