The frequent usage of figurative language on online social networks, especially on Twitter,
has the potential to mislead traditional sentiment analysis and recommender systems. Due …

Metaphor is a pervasive feature of human language that enables us to conceptualize and
communicate abstract concepts using more concrete terminology. Unfortunately, it is also a …

Automatic processing of metaphors can be explicitly divided into two subtasks: recognition
and interpretation. This paper presents an approach to recognize nominal metaphorical …

This paper presents the first computationally-derived scalar measurement of metaphoricity.
Each input sentence is given a value between 0 and 1 which represents how metaphoric …

We present a tiered-approach to the recognition of metaphor. The first tier is made up of
highly precise expert-driven lexico-syntactic patterns which are automatically expended on …

True natural language understanding requires the ability to identify and understand
metaphorical utterances, which are ubiquitous in human communication of all kinds. At …

In this work, we describe a supervised cross-lingual methodology for detecting novel and
conventionalized metaphors that derives generalized semantic patterns from a collection of …

Detecting Rhetorical Figures Based on Repetition of Words: Chiasmus, Epanaphora,
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Efficient message forwarding in mobile ad hoc network in disaster scenarios is challenging
because location information on the boundary and interior nodes is often unavailable …

In this paper we semi-automatically construct a multilingual lexicon for Maslow's seven
categories of needs. We then use the semi-automatically constructed lexicons and a …