Abstract: The purpose of the current paper is to present an on- tological analysis to the identification of a particular type of prepositional natural language phrases called figures of speech [1] via the identification of inconsis- tencies in ontological concepts. Prepositional noun phrases are used widely in a multiplicity of domains to describe real world events and activities. However, one aspect that makes a prepositional noun phrase poetical is that the latter suggests a semantic relationship between concepts that does not exist in the real world. ...
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Topics: 
Natural language processing
Speech recognition
Artificial intelligence