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  <Title>A Statistical Approach to the Processing of Metonymy</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="889" end_page="890" type="concl">
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper discussed a statistical approach to the interpretation of metonymy. The method tbllows the procedure described below to interpret a metonymy in Japanese: 1. Given a metonymy of the tbrm 'Noun A SBriscoe et al. (1990) discusses the use o1&amp;quot; machine-readable dictionaries and corpora for acquMng lexical semantic information.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1">  Case-Marker 1{ Predicate V', nouns that are syntactically related to the explicit terlll A are extracted front a corpus.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> '.2. The extracted nouns are ranked according to their degree of appropriateness as interpretations of the metonymy by applying a statistical measure.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The method has been tested experimentally.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> Fifty-three out of seventy-five metonymies were correctly interpreted. This is quite a prolnising first; step towm'd the statistical processing of metonymy.</Paragraph>
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