METAPHOR A SALIENCE BASED MODEL FOR METAPHORICAL INTERPRETATION IN A DISCOURSE CONTEXT

a discou~e's coherence. 1 Introduction We focus on aspects of the discourse behaviour of the temporal connectives before, after and when. In particular, we note that discourse context can cause sentences which are equivalent in temporal structure to fail to[r]

Arabic), with accurracy of 69.83%, was presentedby Duh and Kirchhoff (2005). Their supervisedmodel, trained on a manually annotated corpus,reached an accuracy of 92.53%.Arabic morphology seems to be similar to He-brew morphology, in term of complexity and datasparseness, but comparison of the[r]

method, where guide features replace, rather thancomplement, the gold standard annotation duringtraining. Feature-based integration is also similar toparse re-ranking (Collins, 2000), where one parserproduces a set of candidate parses and a second-stage classifier chooses the most likel[r]

TU-CHEMNITZENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSESCOHERENCE & COHESION Presenter: Raşide Dağ What makes a text cohere? What differentiates a cohesive grammatical unit from a random collection of sentences? Introduction: Introduction:Cohension and coherence are terms us[r]

and partially productive past-tense schema, but the alleged source forms, the present-tense forms, are phonologically so varied that no single rule can systematically derivethe past-tense forms from the present-tense forms. The existence of product-orientedschemas argues against rules linking one fo[r]

used as exclamations).-2. the directive function (chỉ thị): seeking to affect the behaviour of theaddressee (“please, help me”. “Shut up”, “I’am warning you”).-3. the phatic function( xã giao):opening the channel or checking that it isworking either for social reasons (“hello”, “lovely weathe[r]

methodological and theoretical pluralism, including an opening toward CognitiveLinguistics (e.g., Chilton 2005; O’Halloran 2003). Given the diversity and vastnessof the field, the label ‘‘critical linguistics’’ has been introduced, which also com-prises approaches such as feminist linguistics and eco[r]

7 Prediction of Elastic Properties of Plain Weave Fabric Using Geometrical Modeling Jeng-Jong Lin Department of Information management, Vanung University Taiwan, R.O.C. 1. Introduction Fabrics are typical porous material and can be treated as mixtures of fibers and air. There is no clearly defined b[r]

RESEARCH Open AccessA human motion model based on maps fornavigation systemsSusanna Kaiser*, Mohammed Khider and Patrick RobertsonAbstractFoot-mounted indoor positioning systems work remarkably well when using additionally the knowledge of floor-plans in the localization algorit[r]

Chapter 16 deals with low-cost identification applications in traffic vehicular environments. Firstly, a state of the art of the applications developed in a worldwide framework is outlined. Secondly, a summary of the ERI standards and the architecture of the develo[r]

In order to maintain the speed and reliability of the information transfer between the RFID reader, the middleware and the EPC-IS, the quality of the link between sites must be of high standard. However, it may not be cost effective to to establish such wide area network (WAN) connection. [r]

´e III. 2009. Bayesian multitask learning with la-tent hierarchies. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth An-nual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence(UAI-09), pages 135–142, Corvallis, Oregon. AUAI Press.Jason Eisner. 2003. Learning non-isomorphic tree mappingsfor machine[r]

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puts followed by subsequent re-evaluation of an FB networkwas developed in [7, 8]. The essential difference of these ap-proaches is in the way how blocks in the network are acti-vated, which depends on the way of passing event signals be-tween functional blocks.The execution mode[r]

©2001 CRC Press LLCAdditionally, a functional model must be amenable to implementation in process models. A functionalmodel must be compatible with diverse instantiations in architectures and allow foundation in theoreticalframeworks. Once again, the goal of[r]

1- Evaluation of Accidental Load in Bridge Beam2- Model for the Assessment of Safety and Serviceability of Concrete BridgesA. A. Henriques, J. A. Figueiras3- Development of a Reliability-Based Model for Deflection Limit State in G[r]

2001: A Metaphorical OdysseyMyths are created for the purpose of conveying a message with an interesting medium with whichto do so. Many cultures use myths to teach their young about the past. Through time, however,these myths become impractical due to discovery. This is[r]

dialog data collection from a catalog ordering ser-vice domain.2 Current Methodology for BuildingDialog systemsCurrent approaches to building dialog systemsinvolve several manual steps and careful craft-ing of different modules for a particular domainor application. The p[r]

candidates. Our empirical evaluation on Japanesezero-anaphora resolution shows that our learning-based cache model drastically reduces the searchspace while preserving accuracy.The procedure for zero-anaphora resolutionadopted in our model assumes that resolution i[r]

A CorpusBased Study of Mixed Metaphor
As a Metalinguistic Comment
Elena Semino
Lancaster University (UK)
e.seminolancaster.ac.uk
The notion of “mixed metaphor” is traditionally associated with the prescriptive injunction that,
whatever it is, it must be avoided. Metaphor scholars have attempted to d[r]