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Determining the Conceptual Space of Metaphoric Expressions

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2013)

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We present a method of constructing the semantic signatures of target concepts expressed in metaphoric expressions as well as a method to determine the conceptual space of a metaphor using the constructed semantic signatures and a semantic expansion. We evaluate our methodology by focusing on metaphors where the target concept is Governance. Using the semantic signature constructed for this concept, we show that the conceptual spaces generated by our method are judged to be highly acceptable by humans.

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    David B. Bracewell, Marc T. Tomlinson & Michael Mohler

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Bracewell, D.B., Tomlinson, M.T., Mohler, M. (2013). Determining the Conceptual Space of Metaphoric Expressions. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7816. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37247-6_39

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