A central question in metaphor research is what processes are involved in metaphor comprehension, especially which of comparison and categorization processes governs metaphor comprehension. In this paper, I attempt to provide a computational solution to this problem using comparison and categorization algorithms based on word vectors in a multidimensional semantic space constructed by latent se...

Cognitive theories of depression (Beck, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly. 1:5–37, 1987) predict that depressed individuals will have an increased tendency to interpret ambiguous information in a negative manner. Researchers have observed a negative interpretive bias in a variety of situations, but much of the evidence has come from studies that relied on participan...

Prior studies document significant abnormal stock returns contemporaneous with ratings changes. These findings suggest that ratings changes have information content. It is commonly assumed that stock investors use ratings changes to predict future performance, but in this study we investigate the possibility that investors use ratings changes to reinterpret previously released information (i.e....

Qualitative research approaches are now well established in information systems research, and are given equal weight as quantitative research in research methods courses in graduate programs. Similar, the heated paradigm debate seems to largely have cooled off, with interpretivist research now being accepted as an alternative to positivism and other paradigms. However, from the authors’ experie...

Several projects in various disciplines are now using Standardized General Markup Language (SGML) tags at an interpretive level. That is, these projects contain tags which have the potential to provide the reader with additional information that is not already explicit in the text itself. One such interpretive project is the Orlando Project, which is an integrated history of women’s writing in ...