Computation of Chinese Simile with "Xiang"

The computation of metaphors in Chinese is certainly a challenging issue.Simile,with an obvious mark word,is a good start for automatic processing of metaphor.This paper is focused on automatic identification of Chinese simile phrases with the word "xiang".Altogether 1586 sentences containing "xiang" are first retrieved from the corpus and manually tagged and analyzed.Then the Maximum Entropy Model is applied to detect the simile meaning of "xiang"resulting in a F-score of 89% in open test.Finally,Conditional Random Fields(CRFs) Model is used to identify tenor,vehicle and similarity in the simile,achieving an acceptable F-score of 73%,86% and 83%.