Researchers in the departments of Computing, and Linguistics/English Language at Lancaster University (UK) have adapted the Wmatrix web interface (http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/) for the identification of metaphor candidates in discourse. See:
Hardie, A., Koller, V., Rayson, P. and E. Semino (2007): "Exploiting a semantic annotation tool for metaphor analysis", in: M. Davies, P. Rayson, S. Hunston and P. Danielsson (eds) Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2007 conference. Available: http://corpus.bham.ac.uk/corplingproceedings07/paper/49_Paper.pdf. Accessed 25 March 2008.
Koller, V. (2008): "Corpus-assisted metaphor analysis", presentation at the Corpus Linguistics Research Group, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University/UK, 28 April. Available: http://ling.lancs.ac.uk/groups/crg/files/CRG-w22-Koller_slides.pdf, http://ling.lancs.ac.uk/groups/crg/files/CRG-w22-Koller_references.pdf. Accessed 7 June 2008.
Koller, V., Hardie, A., Rayson, P. and E. Semino (forthcoming December 2008): "Using a semantic annotation tool for the analysis of metaphor in discourse". Metaphorik.de 5. <http://www.metaphorik.de> http://www.metaphorik.de
Best regards,
Veronika Koller
v.koller_AT_lancaster.ac.uk
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