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From: fass@cs.sfu.ca (Dan Fass)
Subject: Re: Q: Metaphor and trope?
Message-ID: <1995Feb10.195201.20368@cs.sfu.ca>
Organization: Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 19:52:01 GMT
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In article <3h8a2g$a5d@mercury.dur.ac.uk>, Joe Heitz
<johannes.heitz@durham.ac.uk> wrote that he is after recent work on 
metaphor resolution and would be grateful for pointers to recent 
work in this field, or indeed any related stuff such as knowledge-rep. 
and metaphor, semantic models dealing with trope, the cognitive 
approach, the philosophical background etc.

In article <pautler-0902950951560001@pautler.ils.nwu.edu>, David Pautler <pautler@ils.nwu.edu> added the ref

Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Computational Approaches
to Non-Literal Language: Metaphor, Metonymy, Idiom, Speech
Acts and Implicature.  1991.  Available as Tech Report
CU-CS-550-91 from the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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Have a look also at:

Fass, Dan, James Martin and Elizabeth Hinkelman (Eds.) (1992).
Special Issue on Non-Literal Language.  Computational Intelligence, 8, (3),
August 1992, pp. 411-599.

You might also want to send a message to the Lido-Mailserver for AI 
Literature coordinated by Prof. Dr. Alfred Kobsa at the Univ. of Konstanz, 
Germany, which contains 32,500 bibliographic entries and is a great 
resource for people interested in AI.  

Send the following query:

-----------------------------------------------
mail lido@cs.uni-sb.de
Subject: lidosearch nolatex nosubstring english

metaphor*
non-literal
figurative
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and you'll get back a bunch of references.  Maybe half of the "metaphor*"
refs to the use of computation as a metaphor, or the use of metaphor in
interface design, but the rest are all about computational approaches to
metaphor.


Joe Heitz also asked: Does anyone out there actually have a working 
system capable of dealing with figurative speech?

A number of people claim they do.  See the papers in the special issue of 
CI (1992) and the metaphor refs in the Lido-Mailserver.


- Dan Fass
