We present a novel approach to automatic metaphor identification in unrestricted text.
Starting from a small seed set of manually annotated metaphorical expressions, the system …

Automatic processing of metaphor can be clearly divided into two subtasks: metaphor
recognition (distinguishing between literal and metaphorical language in a text) and …

The authors have worked over several years on a software tool to make word counts from an
archive of old-spelling early modern English plays and poems. In this article we present the …

As a text, each job advertisement expresses rich information about the occupation at hand,
such as competence needs (ie required degrees, field knowledge, task expertise or …

Multiword expressions are expressions consisting of two or more words that correspond to
some conventional way of saying things (Manning & Schutze 1999). Due to the idiomatic …

The heading figurative language subsumes multiple phenomena that can be used to
perform most linguistic functions including predication, modification, and reference …

In this paper we propose an hybrid system of Arabic words disambiguation. To achieve this
goal we use the methods employed in the domain of information retrieval: Latent semantic …

This article presents SLAM, an Automatic Solver for Lexical Metaphors like? d\'eshabiller*
une pomme?(to undress* an apple). SLAM calculates a conventional solution for these …

This paper presents an unsupervised graph-based algorithm for word sense disambiguation
based on WordNet glosses. The algorithm exploits the contributions of verbs in identifying …

It is important for researchers/investigators to read and understand scientific papers
effectually and effectively. However, it takes much time and many efforts to read and …