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SUMMARY:A Fluid Knowledge Representation for Understanding and Generating 
 Creative Metaphors - Ekaterina Shutova (Computer Laboratory)
DTSTART:20081203T130000Z
DTEND:20081203T140000Z
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CONTACT:Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha
DESCRIPTION:At this session of the NLIP Reading Group we'll be discussing 
 the following paper:\n\nTony Veale and Yanfen Hao. 2008. "A Fluid Knowledg
 e Representation for Understanding and Generating Creative Metaphors":http
 ://aclweb.org/anthology-new/C/C08/C08-1119.pdf. In Proceedings of the 22nd
  International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-08).\n\n*Ab
 stract:*\nCreative metaphor is a phenomenon that stretches and bends the c
 onventions of semantic description\, often to humorous and poetic extremes
 . The computational modeling of metaphor thus requires a knowledge represe
 ntation that is just as stretchable and semantically accommodating. We pre
 sent here a flexible knowledge representation for metaphor interpretation 
 and generation\, called Talking Points\, and describe\nhow talking points 
 can be acquired on a large scale from WordNet (Fellbaum\,1998) and from th
 e web. We show how talking points can be fluidly connected to form a slipn
 et\, and demonstrate that talking points provide an especially concise rep
 resentation for concepts in general.
LOCATION:GS15\, Computer Laboratory
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