Mining online discussion forums for metaphors

Andrew Gargett; John Barnden

Mining online discussion forums for metaphors

Andrew Gargett, John Barnden

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014
Editors	Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Sara Goggi, Thierry Declerck, Joseph Mariani, Bente Maegaard, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Helene Mazo, Stelios Piperidis, Hrafn Loftsson
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages	2507-2512
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9782951740884
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014 - Reykjavik, Iceland Duration: May 26 2014 → May 31 2014

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Name	Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014

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Other	9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014
Country/Territory	Iceland
City	Reykjavik
Period	5/26/14 → 5/31/14

Keywords

Corpus linguistics
Illness and political conflict discourse
Metaphor

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Linguistics and Language
Library and Information Sciences
Education
Language and Linguistics

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Gargett, A., & Barnden, J. (2014). Mining online discussion forums for metaphors. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, S. Goggi, T. Declerck, J. Mariani, B. Maegaard, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, H. Mazo, S. Piperidis, & H. Loftsson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014 (pp. 2507-2512). (Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Mining online discussion forums for metaphors. / Gargett, Andrew; Barnden, John.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014. ed. / Nicoletta Calzolari; Khalid Choukri; Sara Goggi; Thierry Declerck; Joseph Mariani; Bente Maegaard; Asuncion Moreno; Jan Odijk; Helene Mazo; Stelios Piperidis; Hrafn Loftsson. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2014. p. 2507-2512 (Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Gargett, A & Barnden, J 2014, Mining online discussion forums for metaphors. in N Calzolari, K Choukri, S Goggi, T Declerck, J Mariani, B Maegaard, A Moreno, J Odijk, H Mazo, S Piperidis & H Loftsson (eds), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 2507-2512, 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, 5/26/14.

Gargett A, Barnden J. Mining online discussion forums for metaphors. In Calzolari N, Choukri K, Goggi S, Declerck T, Mariani J, Maegaard B, Moreno A, Odijk J, Mazo H, Piperidis S, Loftsson H, editors, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 2014. p. 2507-2512. (Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014).

Gargett, Andrew ; Barnden, John. / Mining online discussion forums for metaphors. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014. editor / Nicoletta Calzolari ; Khalid Choukri ; Sara Goggi ; Thierry Declerck ; Joseph Mariani ; Bente Maegaard ; Asuncion Moreno ; Jan Odijk ; Helene Mazo ; Stelios Piperidis ; Hrafn Loftsson. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2014. pp. 2507-2512 (Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014).

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