Strategies for the Semi-Automatic Retrieval of Metaphorical Terms

This article proposes a method for the semi-automatic extraction of resemblance metaphor terms from a manually annotated corpus of marine biology texts in English and Spanish. The corpus was first searched for target domain terms as well as for lexical markers indicative of metaphors. The combinatio...

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Published in:Metaphor and symbol 2011-01, Vol.26 (1), p.23-52
Main Authors: Ureña Gómez-Moreno, José Manuel, Faber, Pamela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Data analysis
English language
Information retrieval
Marine biology
Metaphor
Search engines
Spanish language
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Summary:This article proposes a method for the semi-automatic extraction of resemblance metaphor terms from a manually annotated corpus of marine biology texts in English and Spanish. The corpus was first searched for target domain terms as well as for lexical markers indicative of metaphors. The combination of these search strategies for metaphor extraction resulted in a set of English-Spanish term pairs. After analysing and comparing these metaphor candidates, a quantitative analysis provided comparative statistical data regarding marine biology metaphor. Finally, the metaphorical nature of marine biology terms was verified in three ways. The first verification strategy entailed an adapted version of the Metaphor Identification Procedure ( Pragglejaz Group, 2007 ). The second involved the analysis of contextual data extracted from the corpus, and the third involved the analysis of visual images from an online marine biology database and from the Google search engine.
ISSN:1092-6488
1532-7868
DOI:10.1080/10926488.2011.535415