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Leveraging Syntactic Constructions for Metaphor Identification [PDF]

Proceedings of the Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, 2018
Identification of metaphoric language in text is critical for generating effective semantic representations for natural language understanding. Computational approaches to metaphor identification have largely relied on heuristic based models or feature-based machine learning, using hand-crafted lexical resources coupled with basic syntactic information.
Kevin Stowe, Martha Palmer
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Conceptual Metaphor in Daily Spiritual Texts Murli by Brahma Kumaris

Humanis, 2022
The meaning of the metaphor is understanding as one of the conceptual domain in terms of other conceptual domains. A metaphor is used effortlessly in everyday life, including in a literary work.
Putu Indira Gita Maharani, I Made Rajeg
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Metaphor identification procedure MIPVU: an attempt to apply it to Lithuanian

Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2015
The aim of this article is to present some insights and reflections as a result of the application of the MIPVU procedure for metaphor identification in Lithuanian and discuss several methodological issues.
Justina Urbonaitė
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Making metaphor studies less WEIRD. The methodological benefits and challenges of a greater diversity of languages and cultures in the study of metaphor

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2022
European languages represent 3% of the world 7,000+ languages, and yet, a recent survey shows that they amount for 84% of the studies in metaphor publications.
Simon Devylder
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Difficulties in Identifying and Translating Linguistic Metaphors: A Survey and Experiment among Translation Students [PDF]

English Studies at NBU, 2019
A survey of twelve translation students in 2017 revealed that they tend to find translating figurative and metaphorical language difficult. In addition, an experiment also conducted in 2017 showed similar results.
Charlène Meyers
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Identification of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Saraiki Language and its Deployment in Different Registers of Saraiki and English: A Contrastive Study

NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2023
Grammatical Metaphor refers to a set of lexico-grammatical choices offered by a language to create formality of expression and pithiness. Firstly, this linguistic feature was discussed by Halliday in 1985 who classified one of its types -the Ideational ...
Sobia Malik
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Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics Metáfora e linguística de corpus

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2011
In this paper, I look at four different aspects of metaphor research from a corpus linguistic perspective, namely: (1) the lexicogrammar of metaphors, which refers to the patterning of linguistic metaphor revealed by corpus analysis; (2) metaphor ...
Tony Berber Sardinha
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The conceptual metaphors of memory: Cases of interdomanial nomadism from computer science to quantum computing

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
Conceptual metaphors, which help conceptualizing one concept in terms of another (Lakoff & Johnson [1980]), often migrate from a source scientific domain onto another.
Charlène Meyers
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Opposition theory and computational semiotics

Sign Systems Studies, 2015
Opposition theory suggests that binary oppositions (e.g., high vs. low) underlie basic cognitive and linguistic processes. However, opposition theory has never been implemented in a computational cognitive-semiotics model.
Dan Assaf, Yochai Cohen, Marcel Danesi, Yair Neuman   +3 more
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Identifying with Metaphor: Metaphors of Personal Identification

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1999
Etude du processus d'identification d'une personne avec une autre par l'expression d'une metaphore de type A=B, representant l'extraordinaire accomplissement de l'homme comme pensee de soi en tant qu'autrui. A travers l'evaluation de l'action et des sentiments des personnages du roman de Conrad intitule «Heart of darkness», l'A.
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