Abstract

Metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon exhibited in language, where one conceptual domain (the target) is thought of in terms of another (the source). The first level of metaphor interpretation is the mapping of linguistic metaphors to pairs of source and target concepts. Based on the abductive approach to metaphor interpretation proposed by Hobbs (1992) and implemented in the open-source Metaphor-ADP system (Ovchinnikova et al., 2014), we present work to automatically learn knowledge bases to support high-precision conceptual metaphor mapping in English, Spanish, Farsi, and Russian.

Date

2015

Authors

Jonathan Gordon, Jerry R Hobbs, Jonathan May, Fabrizio Morbini

Conference

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Metaphor in NLP

Pages

50-55