The inclusion of metaphors within a World Wide Web-based environment offers users the opportunity not only to obtain a visual understanding of the information being presented, but also aids users in developing a clearer understanding of the information and builds on their previously conceptual framework of understanding. The importance of a Web-based collaborative educational learning venture i...

This article uses conceptual metaphor theory to develop the concept of ‘skeumorphs’ (reuse of old concepts for new phenomena) in order to analyse the Swedish The Pirate Bay court case. In line with conceptual metaphor theory, which states that abstract thinking is largely metaphorical, the article argues that this is true also for digital phenomena that, thus, are largely understood through met...

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for supervised classification of linguistic metaphors in an open domain text using Conditional Random Fields (CRF). We analyze CRF based classification model for metaphor detection using syntactic, conceptual, affective, and word embeddings based features which are extracted from MRC Psycholinguistic Database (MRCPD) and WordNet-Affect. We use word emb...

This paper offers a preliminary study of how knowledge may be represented differently in different languages. In particular, we account for the contrast between English and Chinese when identical target domain knowledge is represented with two different, yet related, source domains in each language. We incorporate corpora analysis in English and Chinese with SUMO to delimit the source domains i...

Strategic alignment is sometimes used to provide the conceptual underpinnings of causal analyses of business performance, yet our understanding of the notion suffers, in large measure, from imprecise and unusable definitions that rely on vague geometric metaphors. This paper builds on and improves a conceptual framework for strategic alignment (Wang and Ghose, 2006). It applies the framework to...

Perception has long been seen as a basis for understanding abstract concepts and experiences their linguistic encoding. Conceptual metaphor is considered cognitive link between physical sensory mental representations. The olfactory perception treated peripherical in contrast to other sense modalities. purpose of the study establish how smell conceptually structured Arabic comparison with Englis...