MetaphorShare: A Dynamic Collaborative Repository of Open Metaphor Datasets
This addresses the need for a unified repository to improve accessibility and sharing of metaphor datasets for researchers in human sciences and NLP, though it is incremental as it builds on existing resources.
The authors tackled the problem of fragmented and inaccessible metaphor datasets by creating MetaphorShare, a centralized website that integrates and provides open access to labeled metaphor corpora in various languages, aiming to facilitate research and NLP system development.
The metaphor studies community has developed numerous valuable labelled corpora in various languages over the years. Many of these resources are not only unknown to the NLP community, but are also often not easily shared among the researchers. Both in human sciences and in NLP, researchers could benefit from a centralised database of labelled resources, easily accessible and unified under an identical format. To facilitate this, we present MetaphorShare, a website to integrate metaphor datasets making them open and accessible. With this effort, our aim is to encourage researchers to share and upload more datasets in any language in order to facilitate metaphor studies and the development of future metaphor processing NLP systems. The website has four main functionalities: upload, download, search and label metaphor datasets. It is accessible at www.metaphorshare.com.