A Computational, Psychological and Linguistic Approach to the Cognitive Processes of Metaphor Comprehension and Appreciation
Project/Area Number |
17500171
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Cognitive science
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Research Institution | The University of Electro-Communications |
Principal Investigator |
UTSUMI Akira The University of Electro-Communications, Faculty of Electro-Communications, Associate Professor (30251664)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SAKAMOTO Maki The University of Electro-Communications, Faculty of Electro- Communications, Associate Professor (80302826)
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Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
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Keywords | Cognitive Science / Linguistics / Experimental Psychology / Artificial Intelligence / Metaphor / Computational Modeling / Latent Semantic Analysis / Corpus Analysis |
Research Abstract |
The purpose of this paper is to examine the cognitive mechanism of metaphor comprehension and appreciation through a computational, psychological and linguistic approach, and we obtained the following results : (1) Metaphor comprehension : Concerning nominal metaphors (of the form "A is B"), we have proposed the interpretive diversity theory which argues that interpretively more diverse metaphors are easier to comprehend via a categorization process, and thus less diverse metaphors fail to be processed as categorizations and reinterpreted as comparisons. We have then shown the superiority of the interpretive diversity theory over the other metaphor theories both psychologically and computationally. For adjective metaphors (e.g., red voice) and predicative metaphors (e.g., The rumor flew through the office), which surprisingly few metaphor studies have addressed, we have proposed a new theory, two-stage categorization theory, which argues that adjective metaphors and predicative metaphor
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s are comprehended via a two-stage categorization process. We have shown the superiority of the two-stage categorization theory through the semantic space based computer simulation. (2) Metaphor appreciation : We have empirically demonstrated that the process of metaphor appreciation, in particular the process of assessing metaphor poeticality can be explained by the mechanism of incongruity resolution and other processes (i.e., semantic processing and aesthetic judgment). For color adjective metaphors, we have revealed through both psychological experiments and corpus analysis that color adjective metaphors tend to evoke negative meanings. (3) Preference for the metaphor/simile form and the processing differences between metaphor and simile : We have empirically shown that interpretive diversity better explains the preference for the metaphor form. Furthermore, we found that the process of simile appreciation differs from the process of metaphor appreciation ; comprehensible and diverse metaphors are appreciated only through a semantic process, but comprehensible and diverse similes are appreciated through an aesthetic process. Less
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[Presentation] Word vectors and two kinds of similarity2006
Author(s)
Akira, Utsumi, Daisuke, Suzuki
Organizer
21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Place of Presentation
Sydney, Australia
Description
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Author(s)
内海彰
Organizer
人工知能学会第21回ことば工学研究会
Place of Presentation
岩手県立大学
Year and Date
2005-11-04
Description
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[Book] メタファー研究の最前線2007
Author(s)
楠見孝(編), 内海彰, 坂本真樹, 他(著)
Total Pages
555
Publisher
ひつじ書房
Description
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