To Carry Across: Metaphor Invents Us

1 Who Invents ? : Evidence from the Japan - US Inventor Survey

Human resources are increasingly seen as a key to innovation competitiveness, and there is a need for detailed, systematic data on the demographics of inventors, their motivations, and their careers. To gain systematic data on who invents, we collected detailed information on a sample of inventors in the US and Japan (the RIETI-Georgia Tech inventor survey). The data come from a unique set of m...

Who Invents?: Evidence from the Japan-US Inventor Survey

SUMMARY Human resources are increasingly seen as a key to innovation competitiveness, and there is a need for detailed, systematic data on the demographics of inventors, their motivations, and their careers. To gain systematic data on who invents, we collected detailed information on a sample of inventors in the US and Japan (the RIETI-Georgia Tech inventor survey). The data come from a unique ...

That which we carry with us.

What metaphor identification systems can tell us about metaphor-in-language

This paper evaluates four metaphor identification systems on the 200,000 word VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus, comparing results by genre and by sub-class of metaphor. The paper then compares the rate of agreement between the systems for each genre and sub-class. Each of the identification systems is based, explicitly or implicitly, on a theory of metaphor which hypothesizes that certain propertie...

The US Obesity “Epidemic”: Metaphor, Method, or Madness?

In 2000, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson mobilized the US public health infrastructure to deal with escalating trends of excess body weight. A cornerstone of this effort was a report entitled The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity. The report stimulated a great deal of public discussion by utilizing the distinctive ...