The literary imagination may take flight on the wings of metaphor, but hard-headed scientists
are just as likely as doe-eyed poets to reach for a metaphor when the descriptive need …

Reverse-engineering the brain involves adopting and testing a hierarchy of working
hypotheses regarding the computational problems that it solves, the representations and …

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for supervised classification of linguistic
metaphors in an open domain text using Conditional Random Fields (CRF). We analyze …

Modeling data from visual and linguistic modalities together creates opportunities for better
understanding of both, and supports many useful applications. Examples of dual visual …

Many Chinese words similarity measure algorithms have been introduced since it'sa
fundamental issue in various tasks of natural language processing. Previous work focused …

The term semantics refers to the study of meaning and how it relates to representations.
While it is beyond the scope of this book to delve into the philosophical discourse on the …