Generating Anthropomorphism of Subject and Verb by Transformation Matrix

Abstract

In this paper, given the subject-verb pairs, we propose a computational model to express the difference of the meaning of a verb when the subject has changed. We propose a method to generate metaphorical expressions consist of subject-verb pairs from the model. "Airship swims" is one of the example. It is the expression about the event that an airship flies in the sky gracefully. There are a few reasons why the expression is accepted for people. "airship flie" and the motion of a sea creature, for example "whale swims" represent both "the normal move in a space" and there is a similarity. Given the input ("airship," "fly"), we propose a method to detect a verb "swims" to generate metaphorical expressions considering these similarity. At first, we test which vectorization method is the best as the vectorization of a subject-verb pair. We calculate a transformation matrix to conserve between the meaning of (non-human subject, verb) pairs and the meaning of ("man", verb) pairs. We calcurate the transformation matrix between them using the stable meaning verbs as the anchors. In this paper, we test an hypothesis that we can use these transformation matrices to find an appropriate verb considering the difference of the meaning occured from the subjects. We gather 67 cases of target figurative expressions from Web. We evaluated the proposed method by defining the information retrieval problem of verbs.