This page contains publications on metaphor arising from grant EP/C538943/1 from the EPSRC (July 2005 - November 2008).
Please email me (J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk) to request a paper for which there is no link or for further information.
"Discourse relations and default inferences in metaphor interpretation."
In M. Aurnague, K. Korta & J.M. Larrazabal (Eds),
Language, Representation and Reasoning,
Memorial Volume to Isabel Gomez Txurruka, pp. 13-33.
Donostia-San Sebastian: The University of the Basque Country Press.
ISBN: 978-84-9860-023-0
local online version
Agerri, R. (2008):
"Metaphor in Textual Entailment."
In Companion Procs. of the 22nd Int. Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008),
Manchester, UK, pp.2-6.
online version
Agerri, R. (2008):
"Does blocking affect metaphor?"
In Procs. of the International Workshop on Constraints in Discourse III, pp.95-102,
Postdam, Germany, 30 July - 1 August 2008. (Endorsed by ACL SIGSEM.)
online version
Agerri, R., Barnden, J.A., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2007):
"Invariant mappings and contexts in a computational
approach to metaphor interpretation"
In G. Sengupta, S. Paul, R. Narendranath & R. Batchu (Eds),
Procs. of the IJCAI-2007 Workshop on Modeling and Representation
in Computational Semantics (MRCS-07),
pp.57-61. Hyberabad, India, January 2007.
local online version
Agerri, R., Barnden, J.A., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2007):
"View Neutral Mapping Adjuncts as Default Rules for Metaphor Interpretation."
In J. Gertzen, E. Thijsse, H. Bunt & A. Schiffrin (Eds.),
Procs. of the Seventh Int. Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-7),
pp.283-286, Tilburg University, Department of Communication and Information Sciences,
Tilburg, Netherlands, 10-12 January 2007.
ISBN: 90-74029-31-0
local online version
Agerri, R. Barnden, J.A., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2007):
"Default inferences in metaphor interpretation."
In B. Kokinov, D.C. Richardson, T.R. Roth-Berghofer & L. Vieu (Eds),
Modelling and Using Context:
6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference (CONTEXT 2007),
pp.1-14.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4635.
Springer.
ISSN: 0302-9743
local online version
Agerri, R. Barnden, J.A., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2007):
"Metaphor, inference and domain-independent mappings."
In G. Angelova, K. Bontcheva, R. Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov & Nikolai Nicolov (Eds),
Procs. Int. Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
(RANLP-2007), pp.17-23.
Shoumen, Bulgaria: INCOMA Ltd.
ISBN 978-954-91743-7-3.
local online version
Agerri, R. Barnden, J.A., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2007):
"On the formalization of invariant mappings for metaphor interpretation."
In Procs. Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of
the Association for Computational Linguistics
(Companion Volume: Book II - Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions),
pp.105-108.
The Association for Computational Linguistics.
ISBN: 978-1-932432-87-9
version in ACL anthology
(NB: page numbers here are 109-112)
local online version
Agerri, R., Barnden, J.A., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2008):
"Textual Entailment as an Evaluation Framework
for Metaphor Resolution: A Proposal."
In J. Bos & R. Delmonte (eds.) (2008),
Semantics in Text Processing: STEP 2008 Conference Proceedings.
College Publications.
ISBN: 978-1904987932.
online version
Agerri, R., Barnden, J.A., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (in press):
"Domain Independent Mappings and Source Domain Reasoning
for the Semantics of Metaphor."
In N. Nicolov et al. (Eds.),
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing V.
John Benjamins.
local online version
Barnden, J.A. (2006):
"Consequences for language learning of an AI approach to metaphor."
In J. Salazar, M. Amengual & M. Juan (Eds),
Usos Sociales del Lenguaje y Aspectos Psicolinguisticos: Perspectivas Aplicadas, pp.15-57.
Palma, Mallorca: Universitat de les Illes Baleares.
ISBN: 84-7632-961-X
local online version
Barnden, J.A. (2006):
"Artificial intelligence, figurative language and cognitive linguistics."
In G. Kristiansen et al. (Eds),
Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives, pp.431-459.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-018951-3 ISBN-10: 3-11-018951-8
local online version (preprint)
Barnden, J.A. (2007):
"Metaphor, semantic preferences and context-sensitivity."
In K. Ahmad, C. Brewster & M. Stevenson (Eds),
Words and Intelligence II: Essays in Honor of Yorick Wilks, pp.39-62.
Dordrecht: Springer.
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5832-5 (hardback).
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5833-2 (e-book).
local online version
Barnden, J.A. (2008):
"Metaphor and artificial intelligence: Why they matter to each other."
In R.W. Gibbs, Jr. (Ed.),
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought,
pp.311-338. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-84106-1 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-60086-6 (paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-521-60086-3
Barnden, J.A. (2008):
"Unparalleled creativity in metaphor."
In Creative Intelligent Systems: Papers from 2008 AAAI Spring Symposium
(Dan Ventura, Mary Lou Maher & Simon Colton, Cochairs).
Technical Report SS-08-03.
Menlo Park, Calif., AAAI Press.
local online version
associated poster presentation
Barnden, J.A. (2009):
"Metaphor and context: A perspective from artificial intelligence."
In A. Musolff & J. Zinken (Eds), Metaphor and Discourse, pp.79-94.
Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN: 978-0-230-53730-9 hardback
local online version
Barnden, J.A. (2010):
"Metaphor and metonymy: Making their connections more slippery." Cognitive Linguistics, 21(1), pp.1-34 local preprint publisher's online versionBarnden, J.A. & Wallington, A.M. (in press):
"Metaphor and its unparalleled meaning and truth."
In A. Burkhardt & B. Nerlich (Eds),
Reflections on Tropical Truth: Studies on the Epistemology of Metaphor.
Max Niemeyer.
local online version
Glasbey, S.R. (2007).
"Aspectual composition in idioms."
In L. de Saussure, J. Moeschler and G. Puskas (Eds).
Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality, pp 71-88.
Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
ISBN: 978-3-11-019525-5
local online version
book information
Lee, M.G. (2006):
"On Counterfactual Metaphors and Paradox."
In J. Skilters (Ed.),
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 1,
pp.95-109, University of Latvia Press.
ISBN: 9984783979
local online version
Lee, M. (2006):
"Methodological issues in building a corpus of
doctor-patient dialogues annotated for metaphor".
At Second Int. Conf. of the German Cognitive Linguistics Assoc.,
7 October 2006, Munich, Germany. (Abstract in Proceedings.)
online extended paper
Lee, M. (in press):
"Counterfactuals and Metaphor."
In A. Burkhardt & B. Nerlich (Eds),
Reflections on Tropical Truth: Studies on the Epistemology of Metaphor.
Max Niemeyer.
local online version
Wallington, A.M. (accepted):
"Systematicity in metaphor and the use of invariant mappings."
In L. Cameron, A. Deignan, G. Low & Z. Todd.,
volume of papers based on selected presentations at
Researching and Applying Metaphor conference (RAAM-VI),
Leeds, U.K., 2006.
local online version
Wallington, A.M., Agerri, R., Barnden, J.A., S.G. Glasbey & Lee, M.G. (2006):
"Considerations on the nature of metaphorical meaning
arising from a computational treatment of metaphor interpretation."
In J. Bos & A. Koller (Eds),
Procs. of the Int. Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-5),
Buxton, England, April 2006.
online version
Wallington, A.M., Agerri, R., Barnden, J.A., Lee, M.G. & Rumbell, T. (2008):
"Affect transfer by metaphor for an intelligent conversational agent."
In Procs. LREC 2008 Workshop on Sentiment Analysis:
Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology (EMOT 08),
pp.107-113. Marrakech, Morocco, 27 May 2008.
ISBN: 2951740840
Online version: 113-119 of PDF of workshop proceedings within LREC proceedings.
NB: you need to follow the Workshops link
and then the link to the particular Workshop (W6).
Wallington, A.M., Agerri, R., Barnden, J.A., Lee, M.G., Rumbell, T. (in press):
"Affect Transfer by Metaphor for an Intelligent Conversational Agent."
In K. Ahmad (Ed.), Sentiment Analysis.
In Text, Speech and Language Technology Series,
Springer.
local online version
Wallington, A.M., Barnden, J.A., Glasbey, S.R. & Lee,M.G. (2006):
"Metaphorical reasoning with an economical set of mappings." Documentaccao de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada, 22 (no.spe), pp.147-171. ISSN: 0102-4450 online version
Agerri, R. & Barnden, J.A. (2008):
"Metaphor in Textual Entailment."
Technical Report CSRP-08-01, School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham, UK, October 2008.
online version
Wallington, A.M. (2007):
"An analysis of metaphors in a New York Times article:
A study of the variability in metaphor."
Technical Report CSRP-07-01, School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham, UK, October 2008.
online version
Wallington, A.M & Barnden, J.A. (2006):
"Similarity as a Basis for Metaphor:
Invariant Transfer and the role of VNMAs."
Technical Report CSRP-06-02, School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham, UK, October 2008.
online version
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