This image shows a nice example of our metaphor identification procedure. Each word in a paragraph is graphed for its imageability and concreteness score, and
a.) highly imageable words
b.) that do not have a close semantic relationship to the topic of the paragraph
are likely to be metaphors.
The core of the imageability and concreteness rankings comes from psycholinguistic research, and we've expanded this core enormously by using WordNet sister terms to approximate these scores for words not contained in the original database.
a.) highly imageable words
b.) that do not have a close semantic relationship to the topic of the paragraph
are likely to be metaphors.
The core of the imageability and concreteness rankings comes from psycholinguistic research, and we've expanded this core enormously by using WordNet sister terms to approximate these scores for words not contained in the original database.
No comments:
Post a Comment