TY - GEN
T1 - Mining online discussion forums for metaphors
AU - Gargett, Andrew
AU - Barnden, John
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge financial support through a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (project 330569) awarded to both authors (A.G. as fellow, J.B. as P.I.).
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We present an approach to mining online forums for figurative language such as metaphor. We target in particular online discussions within the illness and the political conflict domains, with a view to constructing corpora of Metaphor in Illness Discussion, and Metaphor in Political Conflict Discussion. This paper reports on our ongoing efforts to combine manual and automatic detection strategies for labelling the corpora, and present some initial results from our work showing that metaphor use is not independent of illness domain.
AB - We present an approach to mining online forums for figurative language such as metaphor. We target in particular online discussions within the illness and the political conflict domains, with a view to constructing corpora of Metaphor in Illness Discussion, and Metaphor in Political Conflict Discussion. This paper reports on our ongoing efforts to combine manual and automatic detection strategies for labelling the corpora, and present some initial results from our work showing that metaphor use is not independent of illness domain.
KW - Corpus linguistics
KW - Illness and political conflict discourse
KW - Metaphor
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84939521290
T3 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014
SP - 2507
EP - 2512
BT - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014
A2 - Calzolari, Nicoletta
A2 - Choukri, Khalid
A2 - Goggi, Sara
A2 - Declerck, Thierry
A2 - Mariani, Joseph
A2 - Maegaard, Bente
A2 - Moreno, Asuncion
A2 - Odijk, Jan
A2 - Mazo, Helene
A2 - Piperidis, Stelios
A2 - Loftsson, Hrafn
PB - European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
T2 - 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014
Y2 - 26 May 2014 through 31 May 2014
ER -