Enrichment of Automatically Generated Texts Using Metaphor

Computer-generated texts are yet far from human-generated ones. Along with the limited use of vocabulary and syntactic structures they present, their lack of creativeness and abstraction is what points them as artificial. The use of metaphors and analogies is one of the creative tools used by humans that is difficult to reproduce in a computer. A human writer would not have difficulties to find conceptual relations between the domain he is writing about and his knowledge about other domains in the world, using this information in the text avoiding possible confusion. However, this task is not trivial for a computer. This paper presents an approach to the use of metaphors for referring to concepts in an automatically generated text. From a given mapping between the concepts of two domains we intend to generate metaphors for some concepts relating them with the target metaphoric domain and insert these metaphorical references in a text. We also study the ambiguity induced by metaphor and how to reduce it.