Processing Metonymy and Metaphor

by Dan Fass

Overview

provides good answers to the expectations it title raisesthe book provides far more than just an approach for processing two tropes: the whole methods gives a way to distinguish diifferent tropes and literal language, to process meaning representations, and to resolve lexical ambiguity. —Computational Linguistics

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567502329
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/16/1997
Series:	Artificial Intelligence Series , #1
Pages:	514
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
What is Non-Literal Language?
What are Metaphor and Metonymy?
Language Model, Collative Semantics and meta5 Program
The Representation of Lexical Ambiguity
The Discrimination of Semantic Relations
The Representation of Semantic Relations
The Resolution of Lexical Ambiguity
Processing Issues
Extensions
Related Work
Discussion and Conclusions
References
Appendices
Author Index
Subject Index
Index of Metaphor types with examples. Index of Metonymy types with examples