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  <Title>Encoding information on metaphoric expressions in WordNet-like resources*</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have discussed a way to deal with metaphoric expressions in WN-like databases which involves: i) a more careful analysis of textual corpora and the reference to theoretical well-established views of metaphor to encode more detailed information at the synset level; ii) the extensions of devices already used in EWN in order to encode information on the mapping between conceptual domains, causing the possibility to have certain metaphoric sense extensions in a language.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The research on the latter issue needs to be further carried out; in particular: - we want to deepen the issue of the weight that other relations than hyponymy (cf. Alonge et al., 1998; Roventini et al., forthcoming) have in order to determine when a concept belongs to a certain conceptual domain for which metaphoric sense extensions inherited from the TO apply; - we think that the EWN TO should be extended with more concepts, since at the moment it only contains very general semantic distinctions.</Paragraph>
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