Compared to more traditional approaches based on hand-coded knowledge (Fass, 1991;Martin, 1990;Narayanan, 1997;Narayanan, 1999;Feldman and Narayanan, 2004; Barnden and Lee, 2002;Agerri et al., 2007), these more recent methods tend to have a wider coverage, as well as be more efficient, accurate and robust.
even the statistical metaphor processing approaches so far often focused on a limited domain or a subset of phenomena (Gedigian et al., 2006;Krishnakumaran and Zhu, 2007), and required training data Turney et al., 2011), often resulting in a limited coverage.