在隐喻理解中,隐喻字面语义表示是隐喻深层语义表示的前提;确切地说,隐喻字面语义表示语言作为隐喻计算的输入语言直接影响到隐喻的最终释义,因此隐喻字面语义表示对隐喻的机器理解有着重要的影响作用。但在国内学术界,还鲜有这方面的研究。鉴于此,该文结合汉语隐喻特点,从隐喻字面语义表示的角度出发,将汉语隐喻分为无嵌套隐喻和嵌套隐喻两种。并在分析隐喻字面语义(浅层语义信息和隐喻信息)的基础上,提出了隐喻角色依存表示语言作为隐喻字面表示语言,最后给出隐喻角色依存表示语言生成算法。实验表明,该方法引入到汉语隐喻解释机制中是富有成效的。

The representation of the metaphor literal meaning is the premise of deeper semantic representation and the further processing of metaphor. In fact, as the input language of the metaphor computation system, the metaphor literal meaning representation language would influence the final semantic calcualtion results. In this paper, we first classify the Chinese Metaphor into two categories, the Un-Nested Metaphor and the Nested Metaphor, based on the analysis of Chinese metaphor characteristics. We further design the metaphor role dependency representation language to describe the metaphor literal meaning in terms of its shallow semantic and metaphor information. Finally, the experiments show that the proposed method is quite effective in interperating Chinese metaphor.
Key words computer application; Chinese information processsing; metaphor literal meaning; metaphor computation; un-nested metaphor; nested metaphor; metaphor role dependency representation language