Metonymy is a figure of speech and a pervasive phenomenon in written as 
well as spoken communication. First I introduce metonymy with a few 
examples. I briefly touch upon some relevant studies conducted in 
linguistics and cognitive linguistics on metonymy.

Metonymy resolution is the task of processing metonymy in natural 
language text automatically. I present the major related works on 
metonymy resolution, in the context of computational linguistics.

In the latter half of the talk, I discuss some of our initial works on 
metonymy resolution. We use an existing resource that models selectional 
preferences of words to detect and interpret metonymy. I conclude the 
talk by looking into the potential avenues for our future work.