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for Enriching WordNets with Metaphor Information (4)

Hamburg Metaphor Database: Aims and Method

  • Build an online database of French and German metaphors
  • Annotate metaphors in corpora with synsets and general conceptual information:
    1. Text corpora are centered around selected topics, for example a given political or sports event (Master Theses written at IRom, Prof. W. Settekorn)
    2. Synset information is looked up in the respective part of EuroWordNet
    3. General conceptual information is entered according to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson 1980); names for conceptual "source" and "target" domains can be found in the Berkeley Master Metaphor List (Lakoff et al. 1991)
  • Study the feasability of a systematic metaphor representation in WordNets
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