MetaNet: Deep Semantic Automatic Metaphor Analysis

Ellen DodgeEllen Dodge

ICSI

Tuesday, May 26, 2015
12:30 p.m., Conference Room 6A

In this talk I will discuss the MetaNet metaphor identification and analysis system, a system makes use of a repository of formalized frames and metaphors to automatically detect, categorize, and analyze expressions of metaphor in corpora. The output of this system is used as a basis for making further refinements to the system, as well as supporting deep semantic analysis of metaphor expressions in corpora. This in turn provides a way to ground and test empirical conceptual metaphor theory, as well as serving as a means to gain insights into the ways conceptual metaphors are expressed in language.