As a special language phenomenon, metaphor is pervasive in our daily life. People use metaphor to define concepts, describe natural disasters and explain unfamiliar things or phenomena in Nature. This paper will apply...As a special language phenomenon, metaphor is pervasive in our daily life. People use metaphor to define concepts, describe natural disasters and explain unfamiliar things or phenomena in Nature. This paper will apply the abstract metaphor theory to every aspects of natural life and social life by demonstrating the examples.展开更多
Current research on metaphor analysis is generally knowledge-based and corpus-based,which calls for methods of automatic feature extraction and weight calculation.Combining natural language processing(NLP),latent sema...Current research on metaphor analysis is generally knowledge-based and corpus-based,which calls for methods of automatic feature extraction and weight calculation.Combining natural language processing(NLP),latent semantic analysis(LSA),and Pearson correlation coefficient,this paper proposes a metaphor analysis method for extracting the content words from both literal and metaphorical corpus,calculating correlation degree,and analyzing their relationships.The value of the proposed method was demonstrated through a case study by using a corpus with keyword“飞翔(fly)”.When compared with the method of Pearson correlation coefficient,the experiment shows that the LSA can produce better results with greater significance in correlation degree.It is also found that the number of common words that appeared in both literal and metaphorical word bags decreased with the correlation degree.The case study also revealed that there are more nouns appear in literal corpus,and more adjectives and adverbs appear in metaphorical corpus.The method proposed will benefit NLP researchers to develop the required step-by-step calculation tools for accurate quantitative analysis.展开更多
Metaphor computation has attracted more and more attention because metaphor, to some extent, is the focus of mind and language mechanism. However, it encounters problems not only due to the rich expressive power of na...Metaphor computation has attracted more and more attention because metaphor, to some extent, is the focus of mind and language mechanism. However, it encounters problems not only due to the rich expressive power of natural language but also due to cognitive nature of human being. Therefore machine-understanding of metaphor is now becoming a bottle-neck in natural language processing and machine translation. This paper first suggests how a metaphor is understood and then presents a survey of current computational approaches, in terms of their linguistic historical roots, underlying foundations, methods and techniques currently used, advantages, limitations, and future trends. A comparison between metaphors in English and Chinese languages is also introduced because compared with development in English language Chinese metaphor computation is just at its starting stage. So a separate summarization of current progress made in Chinese metaphor computation is presented. As a conclusion, a few suggestions are proposed for further research on metaphor computation especially on Chinese metaphor computation.展开更多
Clarifying Wang Yangming＇s thought through a study of his root metaphors of heart-mind is an important step toward explaining his further concepts of the human world. Along with the root metaphors of water and mirror...Clarifying Wang Yangming＇s thought through a study of his root metaphors of heart-mind is an important step toward explaining his further concepts of the human world. Along with the root metaphors of water and mirror, the metaphors of plant and light work together for Wang to form a coherent theoretical and practical system of xin （heart-mind）. This method is also a good way to unravel the various theories of the ＂three teachings＂ that are intermingled in his thinking. By using this methodology Wang＇s attempts to harmonize several ancient traditions of heart-mind that appear as possibly polarized to modem readers, are illuminated （though they did not appear contradictory to the Neo-Confucians）.展开更多
文摘As a special language phenomenon, metaphor is pervasive in our daily life. People use metaphor to define concepts, describe natural disasters and explain unfamiliar things or phenomena in Nature. This paper will apply the abstract metaphor theory to every aspects of natural life and social life by demonstrating the examples.
基金Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Ministry of Education of China(No.19D111201)。
文摘Current research on metaphor analysis is generally knowledge-based and corpus-based,which calls for methods of automatic feature extraction and weight calculation.Combining natural language processing(NLP),latent semantic analysis(LSA),and Pearson correlation coefficient,this paper proposes a metaphor analysis method for extracting the content words from both literal and metaphorical corpus,calculating correlation degree,and analyzing their relationships.The value of the proposed method was demonstrated through a case study by using a corpus with keyword“飞翔(fly)”.When compared with the method of Pearson correlation coefficient,the experiment shows that the LSA can produce better results with greater significance in correlation degree.It is also found that the number of common words that appeared in both literal and metaphorical word bags decreased with the correlation degree.The case study also revealed that there are more nouns appear in literal corpus,and more adjectives and adverbs appear in metaphorical corpus.The method proposed will benefit NLP researchers to develop the required step-by-step calculation tools for accurate quantitative analysis.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60373080.
文摘Metaphor computation has attracted more and more attention because metaphor, to some extent, is the focus of mind and language mechanism. However, it encounters problems not only due to the rich expressive power of natural language but also due to cognitive nature of human being. Therefore machine-understanding of metaphor is now becoming a bottle-neck in natural language processing and machine translation. This paper first suggests how a metaphor is understood and then presents a survey of current computational approaches, in terms of their linguistic historical roots, underlying foundations, methods and techniques currently used, advantages, limitations, and future trends. A comparison between metaphors in English and Chinese languages is also introduced because compared with development in English language Chinese metaphor computation is just at its starting stage. So a separate summarization of current progress made in Chinese metaphor computation is presented. As a conclusion, a few suggestions are proposed for further research on metaphor computation especially on Chinese metaphor computation.
文摘Clarifying Wang Yangming＇s thought through a study of his root metaphors of heart-mind is an important step toward explaining his further concepts of the human world. Along with the root metaphors of water and mirror, the metaphors of plant and light work together for Wang to form a coherent theoretical and practical system of xin （heart-mind）. This method is also a good way to unravel the various theories of the ＂three teachings＂ that are intermingled in his thinking. By using this methodology Wang＇s attempts to harmonize several ancient traditions of heart-mind that appear as possibly polarized to modem readers, are illuminated （though they did not appear contradictory to the Neo-Confucians）.
