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Now available to the public! - The MetaNet Wiki

Submitted by oanadavid on Thu, 07/23/2015 - 12:43

MetaNet has developed a large, structured inventory of conceptual metaphors and frames that is available to the public as of August 7, 2016. This knowledge base is in a read-only wiki format, which enables public users to explore its contents and to make comments on the discussion pages. The url for the MetaNet wiki is: https://metaphor.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/en/

MetaNet at ICLC 13, July 2015!

Submitted by oanadavid on Thu, 07/23/2015 - 11:53

We are presenting at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Newcastle, UK in July 2015, focusing on the conceptual and empirical aspects of the grammatical constructions in metaphor, with a focus on nominal constructions. "Metonymy, metaphors, and constructions in a corpus-based Embodied Construction Grammar framework" (in the program: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-1...).

MetaNet talk at NAACL June 2015!

Submitted by oanadavid on Wed, 05/06/2015 - 16:08

The MetaNet team recently presented a paper on computational approaches to metaphor identification at the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies taking place May 31-June 5, 2015 in Denver, Colorado (http://naacl.org/). The paper is entitled "MetaNet: Deep semantic automatic metaphor analysis" and details the metaphor identification pipeline unique to our project.

Thibodeau and Boroditsky article in PLoS One

Submitted by collinb on Mon, 02/11/2013 - 15:47

A paper by the Stanford evaluation team members, Paul H. Thibodeau and Lera Boroditsky, entitled "Natural Language Metaphors Covertly Influence Reasoning", expanding on their previous work on metaphors for crime, has been published as an article in PLoS One (10.1371/journal.pone.0052961) and is available online.

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2014

David, Oana, et al. Building the MetaNet metaphor repository: The natural symbiosis of metaphor analysis and construction grammar." The 8th International Construction Grammar Conference (ICCG 8), 3-6 September, Osnarbrück, Germany. 2014.

Dodge, Ellen, et al. Constructions and metaphor: Integrating MetaNet and Embodied Construction Grammar." The 8th International Construction Grammar Conference (ICCG 8), 3-6 September, Osnarbrück, Germany. 2014.

Stickles, Elise, Oana David, and Eve Sweetser. Frame role type constraints and frame metonymy in metaphoric interpretation." The 11th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference (HDLS 11), 13-15 November, University of New Mexico. 2014.

David, Oana, et al. Metaphor and grammar: The case of CUT/BREAK verbs in verb-particle constructions." The 12th Conceptual Stucture, Discourse and Language Conference (CSDL 12), 3-6 November, University of California, Santa Barbara. 2014.

2013

David, Oana, and George Lakoff. Wikis, beans and cats: The Cascade Theory of Metaphor." The 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 12), Edmonton, Canada. 2013.

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