Abstract

We aim to investigate cross-cultural patterns of thought through cross-linguistic investigation of the use of metaphor. As a first step, we produce a system for locating instances of metaphor in English and Spanish text. In contrast to previous work which relies on resources like syntactic parsing and WordNet, our system is based on LDA topic modeling, enabling its application even to low-resource languages, and requires no labeled data. We achieve an F-score of 59% for English.

Date

2013

Authors

Ilana Heintz, Ryan Gabbard, Mahesh Srivastava, Dave Barner, Donald Black, Majorie Friedman, Ralph Weischedel

Conference

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Metaphor in NLP

Pages

58-66