Examination of Cognitive Mechanism of Emergence in Metaphor Understanding -Targeting Metaphor Comprehension Support System

2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23700160
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Intelligent informatics
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: TERAI Asuka 東京工業大学, 社会理工学研究科, 助教 (70422540)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2013
• Keywords: 比喩理解 / 創造的思考

Research Abstract

The "feature emergence" is realized in comprehension of metaphors taking the form of "A (topic) is B (vehicle)" or "A (topic) like B (vehicle)". Emergent features are not typically thought of in relation to either the topic or the vehicle word alone, but come to mind as interpretations in metaphor comprehension. In this research, experiments were conducted to examine the process of "feature emergence". The results of psychological experiments and an experiment using fMRI suggest that the process of feature emergence require searching for a wider range of semantic relationships for the topic and the vehicle words. Furthermore, based on the results, an computational model, which represents "feature emergence" using interaction among features was applied to develop a support system of metaphor comprehension.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] A corpus-based computational model of metaphor understanding consisting of two processes (2012)
  • Author(s): Terai, A., Nakagawa, M
  • Journal Title: Cognitive Systems Research Pages: 19-20, 30-38
• [Presentation] 言語統計解析に基づく分生成の計算モデルの実験による検討 (2013)
  • Author(s): 寺井あすか,堀田崇史、中川正宣
  • Organizer: 日本認知科学 会第30回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京、日本
  • Year and Date: 2013-09-12
• [Presentation] Motion-related brain activity enhanced by motion representation during metaphor understanding (2012)
  • Author(s): Kuriyama, N., Terai, A., Nakagawa, M., Yamagishi, K., Kusumi, T., Jimura, K
  • Organizer: 34^<th> Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Place of Presentation: Sapporo, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20120802-06
• [Presentation] Examining an evaluation mechanism of metaphor generation with experiments and computational model simulation (2012)
  • Author(s): Terai, A., Abe K., Nakagawa, M
  • Organizer: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks 2012
  • Place of Presentation: Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Year and Date: 2012-09-13
• [Presentation] An fMRI investigation of feature-emergence-related activation within metaphor comprehension (2012)
  • Author(s): Terai, A., Kuriyama, N., Nakagawa, M, Yamagishi, K., Kusumi, T., Jimura, K
  • Organizer: 34^<th> Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Place of Presentation: Sapporo Japan
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-03
• [Presentation] An experimental examination of emergent features in metaphor interpretation using semantic priming effects (2012)
  • Author(s): Terai, A., Goldstone, R
  • Organizer: 34^<th> Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Place of Presentation: Sapporo, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-02
• [Presentation] 言語統計解析に基づく評価メカニズムを含む比喩生成モデルの構築 (2011)
  • Author(s): 寺井あすか、中川正宣
  • Organizer: 日本認知科学会 第29回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京, 日本
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-15
• [Presentation] Processing emergent features in metaphor comprehension (2011)
  • Author(s): Terai, A., Goldstone, R
  • Organizer: 33th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Place of Presentation: Bostonm USA
  • Year and Date: 2011-07-22
• [Presentation] An examination of the dynamic interaction within metaphor understanding using a model simulation (2011)
  • Author(s): Terai, A., Hirose, S., Kuriyama, N., Nakagawa, M
  • Organizer: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks 2011
  • Place of Presentation: Espoo, Finland
  • Year and Date: 2011-06-17