Metaphor Interpretation

This paper presents a method for interpret- ing metaphoric language in the context of a portable natural language interface. The method licenses metaphoric uses via coercions between incompatible ontological sorts. …...

We present a novel approach to metaphor in- terpretation and a system that produces lit- eral paraphrases for metaphorical expressions. Such a representation is directly transferable to other applications that …...

Automatic metaphor identification and inter- pretation in text have been traditionally con- sidered as two separate tasks in natural lan- guage processing (NLP) and addressed in- dividually within computational frameworks. …...

AbstractMetaphor comprehension and understanding is a complex cognitive task that requires interpreting metaphors by grasping the interaction between the meaning of their target and source concepts. This is very challenging …...