This page contains publications on metaphor research with no particular orientation towards the relationship to mental states. Click HERE for publications on relationships between mental states and metaphor.
Please email me (J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk) to request a paper or further information.
The list includes one or two items of which I am not an author but that have been written by colleagues on the ATT-Meta project, namely Rodrigo Agerri, Sheila Glasbey, Mark Lee and Alan Wallington.
Barnden, J.A. (2012):
"Metaphor and simile:
Fallacies concerning comparison, ellipsis and inter-paraphrase."
Metaphor and Symbol, 27(4), pp.265-282.
publisher's online version
(If you cannot access the paper via that link, please email me at J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk)
Wallington, A.M., Agerri, R., Barnden, J.A., Lee, M.G., Rumbell,
T. (2011):
"Affect Transfer by Metaphor for an Intelligent Conversational Agent."
In K. Ahmad (Ed.), Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis:
Emotion, Metaphor and Terminology, pp.53-66.
In Text, Speech and Language Technology Series,
Springer.
local PREPRINT
Barnden, J.A. (2010):
"Metaphor and metonymy: Making their connections more slippery." Cognitive Linguistics, 21(1), pp.1-34 local PREPRINT from June 2009Barnden, J.A. & Wallington, A.M. (2010):
"Metaphor and its unparalleled meaning and truth."
In A. Burkhardt & B. Nerlich (Eds),
Tropical Truth(s): The Epistemology of Metaphor and Other Tropes, pp.85-121.
Berlin / New York: De Gruyter.
local PREPRINT
Lee, M. (2010):
"Counterfactuals and Metaphor."
In A. Burkhardt & B. Nerlich (Eds),
Tropical Truth(s): The Epistemology of Metaphor and Other Tropes, pp.123-135.
Berlin / New York: De Gruyter.
Wallington, A.M. (2010):
"Systematicity in metaphor and the use of invariant mappings."
In G. Low, Z. Todd, A. Deignan & L. Cameron (Eds),
volume of papers based on selected presentations at
Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World, pp.209-244.
Benjamins.
local PREPRINT
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 PREPRINT
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. (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
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
proof copy
Barnden, J.A. (2008) [official date; but not actually produced till late 2009]:
"Challenges in natural language processing: The case of metaphor (Commentary)." Int. J. Speech Technology, 11(3), pp.121-123 publisher's online version local PREPRINTBarnden, 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.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
Associated poster presentation
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).
Agerri, R. (2007):
"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., 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
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.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
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.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
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.
Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2007.
ISBN 978-954-91743-7-3.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
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.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
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.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
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
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.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
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. Preprint version electronically accessible in: WordLee, 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
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., 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 versionBarnden, J.A., Glasbey, S.R., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2004):
``Varieties and directions of inter-domain influence in metaphor.'' Metaphor and Symbol, 19(1), pp.1-30. Electronically accessible in: pdf
Barnden, J.A., Glasbey, S.R., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2003):
``Domain-transcending mappings in a system for metaphorical reasoning.''
Conference Companion to the 10th Conference of
the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics}(EACL 2003),
pp.57-61.
Association for Computational Linguistics.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
Barnden, J.A., Glasbey, S.R., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2002):
``Reasoning in metaphor understanding: The ATT-Meta approach and system.''
Procs. 19th International Conference on
Computational Linguistics(COLING 2002),
pp.1188-1193.
San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
Barnden, J.A. & Lee, M.G. (2002):
``An artificial intelligence approach to metaphor understanding.'' In Tomasz Komendzinski (Ed.), ``Metaphor: A Multidisciplinary Approach,'' a special issue, Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, 6 (1), pp.399-412.
Barnden, J.A. (2001):
``The utility of reversed transfers in metaphor.''
In Procs. Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of
the Cognitive Science Society, pp.57-62
Electronically accessible in: postscript, pdf
Barnden, J.A. (2001):
``Uncertainty and Conflict Handling
in the ATT-Meta Context-Based System for Metaphorical Reasoning.''
In the proceedings of Context'01:
Third International Conference on Modeling and Using Context.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2116.
Copyright: Springer-Verlag.
Electronically accessible in: postscript, pdf
Lee, M.G. & Barnden, J.A. (2001):
``Reasoning about mixed metaphors with an implemented AI system.''
Metaphor and Symbol, 16 (1&2), pp.29--42.
(Also as Technical Report CSRP-00-11, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, U.K., 2000.)
Lee, M.G. & Barnden, J.A. (1999):
``Mixing metaphors.''
In Procs. Symposium on Metaphor, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognition
(at AISB'99 Convention, Edinburgh, April 1999), pp.11-16.
Brighton, U.K.: Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and
the Simulation of Behaviour.
(This is a preliminary version of Lee & Barnden above.)
Barnden, J.A. (1998):
``Concerning the role of analogy in metaphor processing.''
(Invited talk.)
In K. Holyoak, D. Gentner & B. Kokinov (Eds),
Advances in Analogy Research:
Integration of Theory and Data from the
Cognitive, Computational, and Neural Sciences, pp.291--299.
Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgarian University.
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
Barnden, J.A., Glasbey, S.R., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2004).
``Open-ended metaphorical reasoning, HCI and the ATT-Meta approach.''
Technical Report CSRP-04-02, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, U.K.
Electronically accessible in: rtf
Glasbey, S.R., Barnden, J.A., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2004).
``Temporal metaphors in discourse.''
Technical Report CSRP-04-03, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, U.K.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
Wallington, A.M., Barnden, J.A., Glasbey, S.R. & Lee, M.G. (2004).
``Metaphorical reasoning with an economical set of mappings.''
Technical Report CSRP-04-01, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, U.K.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
Wallington, A.M., Barnden, J.A., Buchlovsky, P., Fellows, L. & Glasbey, S.R. (2003).
``Metaphor annotation: A systematic study.''
Technical Report CSRP-03-04, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, U.K.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
Wallington, A.M., Barnden, J.A., Barnden, M.A., Ferguson, F.J. & Glasbey, S.R. (2003).
``Metaphoricity signals: A corpus-based investigation.''
Technical Report CSRP-03-05, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, U.K.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
Wallington, A.M., Barnden, J.A. & Glasbey, S.R. (2003).
``View neutral mapping adjuncts in real text:
A preliminary investigation.''
Technical Report CSRP-03-06, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, U.K.
Electronically accessible in: pdf
Barnden, J.A., Glasbey, S.R., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2002):
``Asymmetry and reverse transfers in metaphor.''
Technical Report CSRP-02-09, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, U.K.
Electronically accessible in: postscript, pdf
Barnden, J.A., Glasbey, S.R., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.M. (2002):
``Application of the ATT-Meta metaphor-understanding system
to examples of the metaphorical view of TEACHERS AS MIDWIVES.''
Technical Report CSRP-02-10, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, U.K.
Electronically accessible in: postscript, pdf
Barnden, J.A. (2001):
``Application of the ATT-Meta metaphor-understanding approach
to selected examples from Goatly.''
Technical Report CSRP-01-01, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, U.K., 2001.
Electronically accessible in: postscript, pdf
Barnden, J.A. & Lee, M.G. (2001):
``Understanding open-ended usages of familiar conceptual
metaphors: An approach and artificial intelligence system.''
Technical Report CSRP-01-05, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, U.K., 2001.
Electronically accessible in: postscript, pdf
Barnden, J.A., Lee, M. & Markert, K. (Eds). (2001):
Procs. of the Workshop on Corpus-Based and
Processing Approaches to Figurative Language
(held in conjunction with Corpus Linguistics 2001, Lancaster University, U.K.)
Technical Papers Vol. 14,
University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language,
Lancaster University, U.K., 2001.
Obtainable in hardcopy from Barnden or via
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/tech_papers.html
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