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- Title
One small step for MIP towards automated metaphor identification?
- Authors
Dorst, Aletta G.; Reijnierse, W. Gudrun; Venhuizen, Gemma
- Abstract
The manual annotation of large corpora is time-consuming and brings about issues of consistency. This paper aims to demonstrate how general rules for determining basic meanings can be formulated in large-scale projects involving multiple analysts applying MIP(VU) to authentic data. Three sets of problematic lexical units -- chemical processes, colours, and sharp objects -- are discussed in relation to the question of how the basic meaning of a lexical unit can be determined when human and non-human senses compete as candidates for the basic meaning; these analyses can therefore be considered a detailed case study of problems encountered during step 3.b. of MIP(VU). The analyses show how these problematic cases were tackled in a large corpus clean-up project in order to streamline the annotations and ensure a greater consistency of the corpus. In addition, this paper will point out how the formulation of general identification rules and guidelines could provide a first step towards the automatic detection of linguistic metaphors in natural discourse.
- Subjects
LINGUISTS; LANGUAGE &; languages; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; ACADEMIC discourse; ORAL communication
- Publication
Metaphor & the Social World, 2013, Vol 3, Issue 1, p77
- ISSN
2210-4070
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/MSW.3.1.04dor