1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Although some progress has been made in the area of metaphor understanding, little has been made in metaphor generation. Current solutions rely upon a rather direct encoding of alternatives. There is no computational theory that can account for metaphor generation from basic principles. Although generating all types of metaphors from basic principles is very difficult,...

In this paper, we propose a formal representation of the meaning of sentences involving conceptual metaphors in the context of the research line of Computing with Words and Perceptions. Conceptual metaphors are mappings between conceptual domains that are common in everyday natural language usage. They are not just a matter of lexico-grammar stratum but of representation and processing in the s...

• Metaphoric or analogical terminology is common in clinical dermatology, dermoscopy and dermatopathology. • Metaphoric language in dermatology has been criticized for a perceived lack of clear definition and specificity, and non-metaphoric (descriptive) terms and diagnostic algorithms have attempted to be constructed. • Metaphors are pervasive in human language and appear to be deeply rooted i...

Our most fundamental concepts of musical motion and space, used by laypeople an d music theorists alike, are defined by conceptual metaphors that are based on our experience of physical motion. We analyze the 3 most important metaphors of musical motion : the "MOVING MUSIC." metaphor, the "MUSICAL LANDSCAPE" metaphor, and the "MOVING FORCE" metaphor. We show how each metaphor is grounded in a p...

The theory of metaphor proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980a, 1980b) and Lakoff (1993) involves a mapping of conceptual structure from one semantic domain to another. We investigate properties of these conceptual domain mappings by comparing them to morphological derivational relations. Schematicity and productivity are properties that Bybee (1985) and Langacker (1987) propose for characterizin...

Many noteworthy studies have been done to examine the discursive relationship between gender and metaphor in the context of politics, media and literature. In this research, however, I try to investigate the relationship between gender and metaphor specifically in poetical discourse. The main questions of this research are as follows: What is the role of gender in the production and selection o...

Metaphors based on perceptual similarity are considered to be one of the hallmarks of creativity. We propose here an image-based retrieval system for generating pairs of perceptually similar images. A number of examples of images paired by the system are presented and discussed. Often, these images are conceptually very different, and hence can serve as anchors for perceptual metaphors that cre...

Conceptual metaphors provide in linguistic form the information that is mapped between two knowledge domains. The examination of conceptual metaphors has always involved a comparison of target and source mappings. However, defining what should be included in any one domain is a difficult issue. This paper claims that patterns in conceptual metaphor mappings can be found by first identifying the...

We present and evaluate an approach to the reasoning needed to handle a broad class of metaphorical utterances, and a computer program (ATT-Meta) partially implementing and further specifying that approach. The approach emanates from artificial intelligence but is offered also for consideration by cognitive scientists generally. The utterances of interest are ones that (a) rest on conceptual me...