Corpus-driven metaphor harvesting

Authors:
Astrid Reining;Birte Lönneker-Rodman
Affiliations:
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany;International Computer Science Institute, Suite, Berkeley, CA
Venue:
FigLanguages '07 Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Figurative Language
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The paper presents a corpus-based method for finding metaphorically used lexemes and prevailing semantico-conceptual source domains, given a target domain corpus. It is exemplified by a case study on the target domain of European politics, based on a French 800,000 token corpus.