On the “standard” view of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; Kövecses, 2002), metaphorical creativity arises from cognitive processes extending, elaboration, questioning, combining content in source domain Turner, 1989). I will propose that such cases constitute only a part creativity. An equally important common set is comprised by what call “context-induced” metaphors. discuss fi...

We present a supervised machine learning system for word-level classification of all content words in a running text as being metaphorical or non-metaphorical. The system provides a substantial improvement upon a previously published baseline, using re-weighting of the training examples and using features derived from a concreteness database. We observe that while the first manipulation was ver...

Background: Normal children understand and use embodiment metaphorical expressions since they start learning a language, but children suffering from William’s syndrome even in adulthood have little understanding of such expressions and they can hardly use them. Objectives: This study is an attempt to teach embodiment metaphorical expressions of 4.5-5 year old Persian children suffering...

Although the use of metaphorical markers in corpora has been studied to a largeextent (e.g., Glucksberg & Keysar 1993; Skorczynska & Deignan, 2006; Sznjder,2005), no attempt to the best of the researchers' knowledge has been made todescribe metaphorical marking in a comparative analysis of 2 corpora in bothnational and international journals of applied linguistics in Iran. The gap envisagedhas ...

The purpose of this research is to propose a development method of a metaphorical search engine that reflects the metaphor understanding process of human-beings. Our goal is to realize a search engine which outputs the image of an object inputted metaphorically using the expression of “A like B”. For example, when you input “A dog like clouds”, the metaphorical search engine would output a visu...

This paper describes a system designed to perform text interpretation and reasoning using a spatial processor and a network of prototypical memories. These memories of basic embodied acts such as moving and grasping, are organized in a hierarchical structure based on the system’s own set of grounded feelings associated with each memory. The prototypes form metaphor schemas organized into a tall...

Identifying metaphorical language-use (e.g., sweet child) is one of the challenges facing natural language processing. This paper describes three novel algorithms for automatic metaphor identification. The algorithms are variations of the same core algorithm. We evaluate the algorithms on two corpora of Reuters and the New York Times articles. The paper presents the most comprehensive study of ...