Collocation lists as instruments for metaphor detection in corpora

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ID4775779
AuthorsTony Berber Sardinha (0000-0001-8815-1521, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume22
Issue2
Pages249-274
Publication date2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-4450 • E-ISSN: 1678-460X
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0102-44502006000200002
OpenAlexW2138959984
SCIELO_PIDS0102-44502006000200002
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited13

This paper reports a study on the use of collocation lists as instruments for detecting metaphors in corpora. A collocation list contains the collocations for selected words in corpora together with concordances for those words. As corpora become more available to metaphor researchers, there is a growing need for developing ways to gain access to as much data as the corpus can offer. The research described here has hopefully come some way toward meeting the challenges of developing tools for metaphor corpus research. Results suggest that the collocation lists seem to be a good pre-processing instrument for corpus research of metaphor, despite accuracy problems

Collocation (remote sensing) · Corpus linguistics · Information retrieval · Linguistics · Machine learning · Metaphor · Natural language processing · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

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