TY - GEN
T1 - Metaphor suggestions based on a semantic metaphor repository
AU - De Melo, Gerard
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by the DAAD and by the DARPA SocialSim program.
Publisher Copyright:
© LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Metaphors are not only remarkably pervasive in both informal and formal text, but reflect fundamental properties of human cognition. This paper presents an algorithmic model that suggests metaphoric means of referring to concepts. For example, given a word such as government, the method may propose expressions such as father, nanny, corresponding to common ways of thinking about the government. To achieve this, the model draws on MetaNet, a manually created repository of conceptual metaphor, in conjunction with lexical resources like FrameNet and WordNet and automated interlinking techniques. These resources are connected and their overall graph structure allows us to propose potential metaphoric means of referring to the given input words, possibly constrained with additional metaphoric seed words, which may be provided as supplementary inputs. The experiments show that this algorithm greatly expands the potential of the original repository for this task by enabling new connections to be drawn.
AB - Metaphors are not only remarkably pervasive in both informal and formal text, but reflect fundamental properties of human cognition. This paper presents an algorithmic model that suggests metaphoric means of referring to concepts. For example, given a word such as government, the method may propose expressions such as father, nanny, corresponding to common ways of thinking about the government. To achieve this, the model draws on MetaNet, a manually created repository of conceptual metaphor, in conjunction with lexical resources like FrameNet and WordNet and automated interlinking techniques. These resources are connected and their overall graph structure allows us to propose potential metaphoric means of referring to the given input words, possibly constrained with additional metaphoric seed words, which may be provided as supplementary inputs. The experiments show that this algorithm greatly expands the potential of the original repository for this task by enabling new connections to be drawn.
KW - Graph structure
KW - Lexical resources
KW - Metaphor
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85059887136
T3 - LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
SP - 4390
EP - 4397
BT - LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
A2 - Isahara, Hitoshi
A2 - Maegaard, Bente
A2 - Piperidis, Stelios
A2 - Cieri, Christopher
A2 - Declerck, Thierry
A2 - Hasida, Koiti
A2 - Mazo, Helene
A2 - Choukri, Khalid
A2 - Goggi, Sara
A2 - Mariani, Joseph
A2 - Moreno, Asuncion
A2 - Calzolari, Nicoletta
A2 - Odijk, Jan
A2 - Tokunaga, Takenobu
PB - European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
T2 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018
Y2 - 7 May 2018 through 12 May 2018
ER -