Natural Language Understanding: Problems of Figurative Language Processing

Abstract

This work is devoted to the problem of the criterion of metaphorical statements. In order to categorise the statements as particular type (literal, metaphorical, idiom, …) we need a definite criterion. As one possible solution to this problem it is suggested to take logical criterion based on the obvious contradiction to the third axiom of logic (the law of excluded middle). In the article the experiment conducted to check the proposed criterion is described and the results of the experiment are presented.