The high frequency of metaphorical language in textual data makes accurate metaphor processing desired for a number of NLP applications.
the format of metaphor understanding that metaphor processing systems provide should ideally be informed by the requirements of external NLP and a number of considerations arise in that respect: r Metaphor processing typically involves two tasks: metaphor identification (distinguishing between literal and metaphorical language in text) and metaphor interpretation (identifying the intended meaning of the metaphor).