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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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People

Current MetaNet team:

Oana David - UCB, Linguistics, Analysis Team

Ellen Dodge - ICSI AI: current custodian of MetaNet

Luca Gilardi - Systems development

Jisup Hong - Systems and Analysis teams

George Lakoff - UCB Linguistics, Metaphor Analysis,

Teenie Matlock - UCM Social Science, Linguistics

Karie Moorman - UC Merced, Analysis Team

Elise Stickles - UCB Linguistics, Analysis Team

Eve Sweetser - UCB Linguistics

Original MetaNet participants (2012-15):

Lisa Aziz-Zadeh - USC Cognitive Neuroscience PI, Affect Validation

Collin Baker - Project Manager, Repository and Corpora Management, Annotation, and Frame Analysis

Benjamin Bergen - UCSD PI, Linguistics, Spanish Expert, Validation Lead

Jason Bolton, Systems Team

Lera Boroditsky - UCSD PI, Social Science, Validation

Oana David - UC Berkeley Linguistics PhD, Analysis Team

Kristina Štrkalj Despot - Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Zagreb, Croatia; Consultant on Russian Analysis Team

Ellen Dodge - ICSI AI, Linguistics PhD, Analysis Team

Steve Doubleday, Systems Team

Jerry Feldman - NLU, ECG, Repository Consultant

Luca Gilardi, Systems Team

Jisup Hong, Systems and Analysis teams

James Hieronymus - Lead PI 2014-15, NLP and Metaphor

George Lakoff - UCB PI, Metaphor Analysis Lead, UC Berkeley PI, Linguistics Professor, Analysis Team

Patricia Lichtenstein, Consultant, Analysis Team

Teenie Matlock - UCM Social Science PI, Linguistics, Validation Team

Karie Moorman - UCB Linguistics, Analysis Team

Srini Narayanan - Lead PI (2012-14), NLP, Metaphor, NLU, and Repository Consultant

Ekaterina Shutova - Metaphor Extraction Lead, Russian Expert, Analysis Team

Elise Stickles - UC Berkeley Linguistics PhD, Analysis Team

Eve Sweetser - UCB PI, Linguistics Professor, Analysis Team

Elisabeth Wehling, UC Berkeley Linguistics PhD, Moral Cognition Expert, Analysis Team

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