Metaphors and Anti-Unification
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چکیده
A classical approach of modeling metaphoric expressions uses a source concept network that is mapped to a target concept network. Both networks are usually represented as algebras. We present a representation using the mathematically sound framework of anti-unification. We will interpret metaphors as a special case of analogical reasoning for which anti-unification was already successfully applied. Anti-unification has the advantage that a common structural description of the involved concept networks can be given and the connection between source domain and target domain are more clearly specified.
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