From Lexical Semantics to Conceptual Metaphors: Mapping Principle Verification with WordNet and SUMO
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چکیده
The goal of this paper is to further develop methods for verifying Mapping Principles between source and target domain pairings of conceptual metaphors. Previous work (Ahrens, Chung & Huang, 2003) integrated the Conceptual Mapping Model with an ontology-based knowledge representation (i.e. SUMO) in order to demonstrate that conceptual metaphor analysis could be restricted and eventually, automated. However, that study relied on an operational definition that required a large number of instances of source-target domain pairings in order to determine the most frequent mapping. In this study, we further operationalize the frequency-based definition and examine the possibility of using information derived from WordNet and SUMO to verify Mapping Principles for source-target domain pairings that do not occur frequently enough (if at all) in a corpus.
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