CI-P: The ICSI Metaphor Annotated Corpus

这项CRI计划拨款使用概念隐喻理论来计划创建一个涵盖多种语言类型和语料库的在线隐喻资源。隐喻普遍存在于人类语言和思维中，对语言表达和人类推理都起着至关重要的作用。常规的和新颖的隐喻表达经常出现在日常生活中的对话、报纸和其他文本类型中，包括科学、技术和文学写作。本规划的目标是解决与语料库选择和准备相关的问题，并将社区广泛的评估反馈纳入到隐喻注释的迭代设计和实施中。在规划工作接近尾声时，将举办一次讲习班，以评估这一方法，为语料库创建企业建立支持，并建立一个用户社区。这一语料库选择和隐喻标注工作也与SGER正在进行的工作(NSF IIS Grant0843275)相协调，该项目正在探索与可扩展的隐喻建模和推理相关的问题。多层标注将包括概念关系和隐喻领域，相关词汇目标的语言表达和框架标注，以及在标注的目标文本中获得的句法关系。这项工作的结合，加上语义分析和推理方面的并行努力，应该可以在几年内开发和测试能够处理比喻语言的大规模系统。

This CRI planning grant uses the theory of conceptual metaphor to planthe creation of an on-line metaphor resource that covers multipletypes of language and corpora. Metaphor is pervasive in human languageand thought and is crucial for both linguistic expression and humanreasoning. Conventionalized as well as novel metaphorical expressionscan be routinely encountered in everyday life conversations, innewspapers, and in many other text types including scientific,technical, and literary writing.The goal of this planning effort is to resolve issues related tocorpus selection and preparation, and to incorporate community wideevaluative feedback in the iterative design and implementation ofmetaphor annotations. Towards the end of the planning work, there willbe a workshop to evaluate the approach, to build support for thecorpus creation enterprise, and to establish a user community. Thiscorpus selection and metaphor annotation effort is also beingcoordinated with the companion SGER effort underway (NSF IIS grant0843275) that is exploring issues related to scalable metaphormodeling and inference.The multi-layer annotations will include conceptual relations andmetaphor domains, linguistic expressions and frame annotations of therelevant lexical targets, and syntactic relations that obtain in theannotated target text. The result will be the design of acomprehensive, richly annotated resource of metaphoric languge.Thecombination of this work, along with parallel efforts in semanticanalysis and inference should permit the development and testing oflarge-scale systems capable of figurative language processing within afew years.