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Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information‐seeking behavior to advance data discovery

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.
Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information retrieval or document retrieval? Terminological confusions and unrealistic goals in information science, exemplified in relation to generative artificial intelligence

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract ChatGPT and related technologies have revived an old issue in information science (IS) concerning information retrieval (IR) versus document retrieval. Since 1950, the term IR has primarily been used as a misnomer for document retrieval. This problematic terminology reflects a desire to go beyond documents and provide, in response to user ...
Birger Hjørland
wiley   +1 more source

What Is Said by Metaphor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
‘What is said’ by an utterance, from a traditional truth-conditional view of language, is the uttered sentence’s conventionally encoded semantic meaning, and is distinguished from ‘what is implicated’, such as metaphor, which is understood as a type of ...
Ku, Hsiu-lin
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Improving Students’ Metaphor Interpretation: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach to Interpret Metaphors in the Song Titanium (2011)

open access: yesEthical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature, 2017
This research is conducted to measure how participants’ understanding to a source domain of metaphor will help them to better interpret metaphor in “Titanium” song by using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT).
Muhammad Adam
doaj   +3 more sources

The Neural Basis of Metaphor Comprehension: Evidence from Left Hemisphere Degeneration

open access: yesNeurobiology of Language, 2020
Despite the ubiquity of metaphor in cognition and communication, it is absent from standard clinical assessments of language, and the neural systems that support metaphor processing are debated.
Nathaniel Klooster   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A dancing bear, a colleague, or a sharpened toolbox? The cautious adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies in digital humanities research

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping the research landscape and carries significant implications for Digital Humanities (DH), a field long intertwined with computational methods and technologies. This study examines how DH scholars are adopting and critically evaluating GenAI in their research. Drawing on an
Rongqian Ma, Meredith Dedema, Andrew Cox
wiley   +1 more source

An inferential articulation of metaphorical assertions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper argues for the view that metaphors are assertions by locating metaphor within our social discursive practices of asserting and inferring. The literal and the metaphorical differ not in the stating of facts nor in the representation of states ...
Kwesi, Richmond
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Metaphor, indeterminacy, and intention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
David Cooper has argued that it is a constraint on any acceptable theory of metaphor that it account for the 'indeterminacy' of metaphorical content, that is, the sense that many metaphors admit of more than one acceptable interpretation, none of which ...
McGonigal, A.
core   +1 more source

Bilingualism Enhances Metalinguistic Awareness in Autism: Extending the Two‐Dimensional Grammaticality Judgment Task

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bilingualism has been associated with enhanced metalinguistic awareness (MA), the ability to reflect upon language. However, findings remain mixed, and little is known about how proficiency in the most proficient (L1) and second‐best language (L2) contribute to MA, especially in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who often present ...
Pauline Wolfer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mimesis and Metaphor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
"Representation", "imitation" and "mirroring" have proved to be insufficient translations of the concept of mimesis. Walter Benjamin's notion of "mimetic potential" offers a different view on the qualities of mimesis.
Eder, Thomas
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