Complex Image Schemas

Image Schemas and Lexicons:

This paper compares the "radial category" of image schemas derived for the polysemous word "over", by Brugman and Lakoff, 1987, with the lexical networks for "over" derived by the author, from Roget's International Thesaurus, 3rd Edition, and The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition.

LGIST: Learning Generalized Image Schemas for Transfer

Image Schemas and Force - Dynamics in FrameNet ∗

This report presents the early results of the Frame+Schema project, a project to represent image and force-dynamic schemas in FrameNet. These structures are eventually intended to be used in leveraging the wealth of frame semantic knowledge available in the FrameNet database for situation-specific reasoning. We detail our image and forcedynamic schemas in the Embodied Construction Grammar forma...

Mapping Image-schemas and Translating Metaphors

In this paper we demonstrate that identifying the mappings between the source and target domains for a conceptual metaphor allows for both a greater understanding of the conceptual basis of metaphors, and more effective language translation. We first introduce and explain the Animal Metaphor to support our idea. We show that the Animal Metaphor exists in both English and Chinese, but that it ma...

Analyzing Plans through Image Schemas and Descriptions

We describe our efforts in building the epistemic layer of the cognitive architecture AKIRA. We assume a constructive stance: experiences, although depending also on entities that exist independently, are “constructed” (in a sense that is stronger than “framed”) by the intentionality of an observer, according to its categorical and ontological structure. Here we face directly one interesting ch...