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/
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...).
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.
