Coercive metaphors in news headlines: a cognitive-pragmatic approach

Translation of News Headlines

Machine-Translation of news headlines is difficult since the sentences are fragmentary and abbreviations and acronyms of proper names are frequently used. Another difficulty is that, since the headline comes at the top of a news article, the context information useful to disambiguate the sense of words and to determine their translation(target word) is not available. This paper proposes a new a...

happiness conceptual metaphors in persian: a cognitive corpus-driven approach

this study investigates the conceptual metaphors of happiness in a representative corpus of modern persian. making use of persian linguistic database, we sampled a corpus of contemporary written texts, to represent modern colloquial persian; then we tried to extract the relevant conceptual metaphors of happiness. the sample corpus contains 14 texts written by contemporary iranian writers. analy...

Negative News No More: Classifying News Article Headlines

Generating News Headlines with Recurrent Neural Networks

We describe an application of an encoder-decoder recurrent neural network with LSTM units and attention to generating headlines from the text of news articles. We find that the model is quite effective at concisely paraphrasing news articles. Furthermore, we study how the neural network decides which input words to pay attention to, and specifically we identify the function of the different neu...

A Cognitive-pragmatic Approach to Puns

The present paper is intended to provide a unified account for the interpretation of puns from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective. In recent years a few scholars have delved into the processing mechanism of puns, but none of them has demonstrably elucidated the cognitive psychological foundation of puns and the development of our cognitive strategy for pun interpretation. Through careful analyse...