in a metonymy of the form A R V, an implicit term B will have a much tighter relationship with the explicit term A than with the predicate V. Consequently, a noun B such that f (A, Q, B) 0 ∧ f (B, R, V ) = 0 may be appropriate as an interpretation of the metonymy.
a non-zero probability should be assigned to Pr Equation 7is the probability that noun B occurs as a member of class C. This is reduced to The frequency of class C is obtained similarly: where B is a noun which belongs to the class C. Finally we derive In summary, we use the measure M as defined in Equation 3, and calculated by applying Equation (4) to Equation (9), to rank nouns according to their appropriateness as possible interpretations of a metonymy.  )