Article Structure

Abstract

This paper presents work in progress towards automatic recognition and classification of comparisons and similes.

Introduction

Comparisons are phrases that express the likeness of two entities.

Autism and simile comprehension

2.1 Autism and figurative language

Relevant literature

Comprehensive theoretical investigations into the expressive power of similes can be found in (Bethlehem, 1996) and (Israel et al., 2004).

Anatomy of a comparison

4.1 Conventionality: norms and exploitations

Approaches proposed

5.1 Overview

Conclusions and future work

The problem of automatic identification of similes has its place in the paradigm of text simplification for people with language impairments.