AI RESEARCH
Learning the Cue or Learning the Word? Analyzing Generalization in Metaphor Detection for Verbs
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.13713v1 Announce Type: new Metaphor detection models achieve strong benchmark performance, yet it remains unclear whether this reflects transferable generalization or lexical memorization. To address this, we analyze generalization in metaphor detection through RoBERTa, the shared backbone of many state-of-the-art systems, focusing on English verbs using the VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus. We