Currently our models cannot estimate probabilities for word combinations unseen in the corpus, and WordNet could be used for re-creating the frequencies of these combinations (Lapata, Keller, and McDonald 2001;Clark and Weir 2001).
part of our aim here was to investigate whether it is at all possible to generate interpretations for metonymic constructions without the use of prior knowledge bases that might bias the acquisition process in uncontrolled and idiosyncratic ways.