Computer Interpretation of Metaphoric Phrases

2Computational Models of Metaphor

Computational research on metaphor has taken various approaches, some of which relates to work by linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists as well. Frozen metaphors can be retrieved directly from the lexicon; however, methods which depend on analysis to understand “live” metaphors bring along with them the capability of analysis of frozen metaphor as “part of the package.”

From the point of view of focus, some work analyzes a particular domain in depth, while most research looks at metaphoric expressions in general, and are necessarily more open – ended. Metaphor themes which extend beyond a single sentence have not been given as much attention. Most of the work has been done on simple sentences in which ...