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, andMetaphor 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.- Anthology ID:
- L14-1577
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2014
- Address:
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2507–2512
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/737_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Andrew Gargett and John Barnden. 2014. Mining Online Discussion Forums for Metaphors. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 2507–2512, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Mining Online Discussion Forums for Metaphors (Gargett & Barnden, LREC 2014)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/737_Paper.pdf