chainnet-xling

Investigating metaphors cross-linguistically with ChainNet and OMW

Data in data/CoreLex is a copy from here. ChainNet data is a copy from here.

To obtain the WordNet 1.5 to 3.0 mappings (needed for synset_corelex.py), download mapp.tar and decompress the contents into data.

03_get_related.py look at synsets related by metaphor or metonomy and other senses they may have.

03_get_translations.py look at synsets related by metaphor or metonomy and how their translations overlap.

References

• Francis Bond, & Maudslay, R. H. (2025) bond-lab/chainnet-xling: Data for GWC 2025 paper (v0.9). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14837329
• Francis Bond and Rowan Hall Maudslay (2025) Metonymy is more multilingual than metaphor: Analysing tropes using ChainNet and the Open Multilingual Wordnet In Proceedings of the 13th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2025), Pavia