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SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGI...

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 arises.
Metaphor is a pervasive aspect of every genre of text and every register of speech  and is as
useful for describing the inner workings of a black hole (itself a metaphor) as it is the
affairs of the human heart. The ubiquity of metaphor in natural language thus poses a
significant challenge for Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems and their builders  who
cannot afford to wait until the problems of literal language have been solved before turning
their attention to figurative phenomena. This book offers a comprehensive approach to the
computational treatment of metaphor and its figurative brethren-including simile  analogy  and
conceptual blending-that does not shy away from their important cognitive and philosophical
dimensions. Veale  Shutova  and Beigman Klebanov approach metaphor from multiple computational
perspectives  providing coverage of both symbolic and statistical approaches to interpretation
and paraphrase generation  while also considering key contributions from philosophy on what
constitutes the meaning of a metaphor. This book also surveys available metaphor corpora and
discusses protocols for metaphor annotation. Any reader with an interest in metaphor  from
beginning researchers to seasoned scholars  will find this book to be an invaluable guide to
what is a fascinating linguistic phenomenon.

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