It's Better to Teach Fishing than Giving a Fish: An Auto-Augmented Structure-aware Generative Model for Metaphor Detection

Abstract

Metaphor Detection aims to identify the metaphorical meaning of words in the sentence. Most existing work is discriminant models, which use the contextual semantic information extracted by transformers for classifications directly. Due to insufficient training data and corresponding paraphrases, recent methods focus on how to get external resources and utilize them to introduce more knowledge. Currently, contextual modeling and external data are two key issues in the field. In this paper, we propose An Auto-Augmented Structure-aware generative model (AAAS) for metaphor detection, which transforms the classification task into a keywords-extraction task. Specifically, we propose the task of structure information extraction to allow the model to use the'structural language' to describe the whole sentence. Furthermore, without any other external resources, we design a simple but effective auto-augmented method to expand the limited datasets. Experimental results show that AAAS obtains competitive results compared with state-of-the-art methods.