<p>Metaphorical expressions evoke stronger emotions than literal language. However, their implicit sentiment mapping characteristics pose significant challenges for sentiment analysis. Existing studies exhibit two major limitations: first, most models focus on modeling the partial of three core elements (the source-domain word <i>S</i>, the target-domain word <i>T</i>, and the metaphorical context <i>C</i>), neglecting the interactions among them in metaphors; second, current research in computational metaphor predominantly adopts a single-type metaphor pattern, making it difficult for models to capture shared representations across different metaphor types, thereby limiting their generalization. To address these issues, this study proposes a multi-type metaphor sentiment analysis framework that jointly models <i>S</i>, <i>T</i>, and <i>C</i>, aiming to accurately identify the sentiment of complex metaphorical texts while revealing the path of metaphorical sentiment transfer, thereby facilitating sentiment analysis of metaphor-rich texts. To effectively model the three elements, a metaphor sentiment analysis model integrating Multi-Task Contrastive Learning and Instruction Tuning (MTCL-IT) is proposed. Finally, multi-perspective experiments are conducted on the constructed English dataset EMSA and Chinese dataset CMSA, both containing <i>S</i>, <i>T</i>, sentiment polarity, and metaphor type information, fully validating the effectiveness of the proposed three-element joint modeling framework and model in sentiment identification and understanding of sentiment mapping mechanisms.</p>

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Joint modeling of source, target, and context for metaphor sentiment analysis: Dataset and method

  • Changyong Niu,
  • Hongde Liu,
  • Senbin Zhu,
  • Xingren Wang,
  • Chenyuan He,
  • Yuxiang Jia

摘要

Metaphorical expressions evoke stronger emotions than literal language. However, their implicit sentiment mapping characteristics pose significant challenges for sentiment analysis. Existing studies exhibit two major limitations: first, most models focus on modeling the partial of three core elements (the source-domain word S, the target-domain word T, and the metaphorical context C), neglecting the interactions among them in metaphors; second, current research in computational metaphor predominantly adopts a single-type metaphor pattern, making it difficult for models to capture shared representations across different metaphor types, thereby limiting their generalization. To address these issues, this study proposes a multi-type metaphor sentiment analysis framework that jointly models S, T, and C, aiming to accurately identify the sentiment of complex metaphorical texts while revealing the path of metaphorical sentiment transfer, thereby facilitating sentiment analysis of metaphor-rich texts. To effectively model the three elements, a metaphor sentiment analysis model integrating Multi-Task Contrastive Learning and Instruction Tuning (MTCL-IT) is proposed. Finally, multi-perspective experiments are conducted on the constructed English dataset EMSA and Chinese dataset CMSA, both containing S, T, sentiment polarity, and metaphor type information, fully validating the effectiveness of the proposed three-element joint modeling framework and model in sentiment identification and understanding of sentiment mapping mechanisms.