(How) Can the use of hyperbole in metaphorical idioms and scenarios contribute to an increase emotionalisation public debates? Using a research corpus quotations from British politicians speeches interviews press texts 2016-2020, this paper investigates hyperbolic formulations Brexit-related applications proverb You cannot have your cake eat it related national liberation, which appear strongly...

We attacked the problem of solving crossword puzzles by computer: given a set of clues and a crossword grid, try to maximize the number of words correctly lled in. After an analysis of a large collection of puzzles, we decided to use an open architecture in which independent programs specialize in solving speciic types of clues, drawing on ideas from information retrieval, database search, and ...

The proverb interpretation task (PIT) is often used in clinical settings to evaluate frontal "executive" dysfunction. However, only a relatively small number of studies have investigated the relationship between frontal lobe lesions and performance on the PIT. We compared 52 patients with unselected focal frontal lobe lesions with 52 closely matched healthy controls on a proverb interpretation ...

Difficulties in understanding irony and sarcasm are part of the social cognition deficits in patients with schizophrenia. A number of studies have reported higher error rates during comprehension in patients with schizophrenia. However, the relationships of these impairments to schizotypal personality traits and other language deficits, such as the comprehension of proverbs, are unclear. We inv...

Designers in general have used diagrams and sketches to help in the process of creation. This is particularly so for system designers whose output is a set of programs. It would seem reasonable that the conversion of diagrams directly into a program would be desirable and yet the work of Green and Petre [12,13,14,19] and Citrin [8] has placed doubt on the viability of graphical programming nota...

A recent ground-breaking publication described hypothalamus-driven programmatic aging. As a Russian proverb goes "everything new is well-forgotten old". In 1958, Dilman proposed that aging and its related diseases are programmed by the hypothalamus. This theory, supported by beautiful experiments, remained unnoticed just to be re-discovered recently. Yet, it does not explain all manifestations ...