A PROGRAM FOR FINDING METAPHOR CANDIDATES IN CORPORA
In this paper, I present a computer program (‘Identifi cador de Metáforas’) for finding metaphor candidates (i.e., words that are likely to have been used metaphorically) in corpora. It works by matching each word in the corpus to five databases that contain several kinds of information about lexis...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2011 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) |
| Repository: | The ESPecialist (Online) |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/6239 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/6239 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | conceptual metaphor linguistic metaphor Corpus Linguistics metaphor identification metáfora conceitual metáfora linguística Linguística de Corpus identificação de metáfora |
| Summary: | In this paper, I present a computer program (‘Identifi cador de Metáforas’) for finding metaphor candidates (i.e., words that are likely to have been used metaphorically) in corpora. It works by matching each word in the corpus to five databases that contain several kinds of information about lexis and its relationship to metaphor, all extracted from extensive hand-annotated corpora. These databases store the probability of words being metaphorical based on their previous use in metaphors, on lexical patterns occurring near and around words, and on their word class. This article explains how the program was created and how it works. |
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