@inproceedings{pitarch-etal-2024-medical,
    title = "Medical-{FLAVORS}: A Figurative Language and Vocabulary Open Repository for {S}panish in the Medical Domain",
    author = "Pitarch, Lucia  and
      Angles-Herrero, Emma  and
      Liu, Yufeng  and
      Lal, Daisy Monika  and
      Gracia, Jorge  and
      Rayson, Paul  and
      Rietjens, Judith",
    editor = "Demner-Fushman, Dina  and
      Ananiadou, Sophia  and
      Thompson, Paul  and
      Ondov, Brian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.cl4health-1.13",
    pages = "109--114",
    abstract = "Metaphors shape the way we think by enabling the expression of one concept in terms of another one. For instance, cancer can be understood as a place from which one can go in and out, as a journey that one can traverse, or as a battle. Giving patients awareness of the way they refer to cancer and different narratives in which they can reframe it has been proven to be a key aspect when experiencing the disease. In this work, we propose a preliminary identification and representation of Spanish cancer metaphors using MIP (Metaphor Identification Procedure) and MetaNet. The created resource is the first openly available dataset for medical metaphors in Spanish. Thus, in the future, we expect to use it as the gold standard in automatic metaphor processing tasks, which will also serve to further populate the resource and understand how cancer is experienced and narrated.",
}

Metaphors shape the way we think by enabling the expression of one concept in terms of another one. For instance, cancer can be understood as a place from which one can go in and out, as a journey that one can traverse, or as a battle. Giving patients awareness of the way they refer to cancer and different narratives in which they can reframe it has been proven to be a key aspect when experiencing the disease. In this work, we propose a preliminary identification and representation of Spanish cancer metaphors using MIP (Metaphor Identification Procedure) and MetaNet. The created resource is the first openly available dataset for medical metaphors in Spanish. Thus, in the future, we expect to use it as the gold standard in automatic metaphor processing tasks, which will also serve to further populate the resource and understand how cancer is experienced and narrated.
Pitarch, Lucia Angles-Herrero, Emma Liu, Yufeng Lal, Daisy Monika Gracia, Jorge Rayson, Paul Rietjens, Judith
Medical-FLAVORS: A Figurative Language and Vocabulary Open Repository for Spanish in the Medical Domain