The literary imagination may take flight on the wings of metaphor, but hard-headed scientists are just as likely as doe-eyed poets to reach for a metaphor when the descriptive need arises. Metaphor is a pervasive aspect of every genre of text and every register of speech, and is as useful for describing the inner workings of a black hole (itself a metaphor) as it is the affairs of the human heart. The ubiquity of metaphor in natural language thus poses a significant challenge for Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems and their builders, who cannot afford to wait until the problems of literal language have been solved before turning their attention to figurative phenomena. This book offers a comprehensive approach to the computational treatment of metaphor and its figurative brethren-including simile, analogy, and conceptual blending-that does not shy away from their important cognitive and philosophical dimensions. Veale, Shutova, and Beigman Klebanov approach metaphor from multiple computational perspectives, providing coverage of both symbolic and statistical approaches to interpretation and paraphrase generation, while also considering key contributions from philosophy on what constitutes the meaning of a metaphor. This book also surveys available metaphor corpora and discusses protocols for metaphor annotation. Any reader with an interest in metaphor, from beginning researchers to seasoned scholars, will find this book to be an invaluable guide to what is a fascinating linguistic phenomenon.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN-13
9781627058506
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221473843
Product Key Features
Book Title
Metaphor: a Computational Perspective
Author
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Tony Veale, Ekaterina Shutova
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
191mm
Item Weight
325g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Tony Veale, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Ekaterina Shutova
Series Title
Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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