In this chapter we examine how people think about the information space of the World Wide Web. We provide empirical evidence collected in interviews with beginning and experienced web users to show that much of people's conceptual experience of the web is metaphorical and understood through the process of conceptual integration. We argue that designers of tools for navigation and collaboration ...

We show that it is possible to reliably discriminate whether a syntactic construction is meant literally or metaphorically using lexical semantic features of the words that participate in the construction. Our model is constructed using English resources, and we obtain state-of-the-art performance relative to previous work in this language. Using a model transfer approach by pivoting through a ...

Current approaches to supervised learning of metaphor tend to use sophisticated features and restrict their attention to constructions and contexts where these features apply. In this paper, we describe the development of a supervised learning system to classify all content words in a running text as either being used metaphorically or not. We start by examining the performance of a simple unig...

The molecular design in our manuscript is metaphorically represented by curling, a winter sport played on ice. red stone of N−N component striking yellow that was originally located between the exocyclic C=C double bond cross-conjugated dibenzofulvalene, and replacing it. More information can be found Research Article A. Fukazawa co-workers (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202300181).

We present a novel approach to automatic metaphor identification, that discovers both metaphorical associations and metaphorical expressions in unrestricted text. Our system first performs hierarchical graph factorization clustering (HGFC) of nouns and then searches the resulting graph for metaphorical connections between concepts. It then makes use of the salient features of the metaphorically...

"Deing a medical student, Alice perceived the hospi-*-* tal as a place of wonder. Being a medical student, Alice thought ofherself (if she ever thought ofherself) as intelligent, practical, educable, compassionate, and potentially competent to care for the sick. All she needed to accomplish this task was knowledge, and armed with 2 years worth ofbasic facts, she now sought to acquire that knowl...

Depictions, such as maps, that portray visible things are ancient whereas graphics, such as charts and diagrams, that portray things that are inherently not visible, are relatively modern inventions. An analysis of historical and developmental graphic inventions suggests that they convey meaning by using elements and space naturally. Elements are based on likenesses, "figures of depiction" and ...

Analysis of intrinsic symmetries of non-rigid and articulated shapes is an important problem in pattern recognition with numerous applications ranging from medicine to computational aesthetics. Considering articulated planar shapes as closed curves, we show how to represent their extrinsic and intrinsic symmetries as self-similarities of local descriptor sequences, which in turn have simple int...

The Zhuangzi was originally compiled around 350-300 BCE, or the Warring States period, during which many classic Chinese philosophical works were written. Like the Dao De Jing and other canonical Daoist texts written around this time, the Zhuangzi has been used as a meditative guide and self-cultivation handbook for people looking to escape the social pressures of traditional Chinese culture. T...

* PhD. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School o Medicine, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil. To a certain extent, we may say that the history of humankind has been characterized by struggles against hunger. However, there have been reports and depictions of obese persons since ancient times. In some societies, and even in western societies, in some periods, ...