A Cognitively Motivated Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Metaphor Explanations

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arXiv:2608.15828v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current evaluation of metaphor explanations relies mainly on holistic quality ratings, revealing little about how explanation quality is structured or where human judgments agree and diverge. We introduce a cognitively motivated framework that decomposes metaphor explanation quality into six theoretically grounded dimensions. In a dense annotation study (11,200 ratings), we find that: {\bfseries(i)} explanation quality is genuinely multidimension