FrameBERT: Conceptual Metaphor Detection with Frame Embedding Learning

• DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.114
• Publication Date: 2023-09-09T20:54:31Z
• Authors: Yucheng Li; Shun Wang; Chenghua Lin; Frank Guerin; Loic Barrault
• Keywords: FOS: Computer and information sciences; Computer Science - Computation and Language; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; Computation and Language (cs.CL)

In this paper, we propose FrameBERT, a RoBERTa-based model that can explicitly learn and incorporate FrameNet Embeddings for concept-level metaphor detection. FrameBERT not only achieves better or comparable performance to the state-of-the-art, but also is more explainable and interpretable compared to existing models, attributing to its ability of accounting for external knowledge of FrameNet.