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The description of linguistic metaphors has often been restricted to intuitively gen- erated examples or the analysis of short texts. The development of large corpora of computer-searchable nonliterary texts enables researchers to make more accurate…
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Metaphor computation has attracted more and more attention because metaphor, to some extent, is the focus of mind and language mechanism. However, it encounters problems not only due to the rich expressive power of natural language but also due to…
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This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch. The method is…
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(From the chapter Presents an approach that unifies metaphor with processes of analogy and similarity. The authors first lay out the analogy approach to metaphor and delineate some limitations. In the 1st section, the authors ask whether large-scale…
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Metaphor is ubiquitous in text, even in highly technical text. Correct inference about tex- tual entailment requires computers to distin- guish the literal and metaphorical senses of a word. Past work has treated this problem as a classical word…