Metaphor Identification in Large Texts Corpora

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Neuman, Yair ^a   Assaf, Dan ^a   Cohen, Yohai ^b   Last, Mark ^a   Argamon, Shlomo ^c   Howard, Newton ^d   Frieder, Ophir ^e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Gilasio Coding Ltd   (Israel)

^c Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; PREDICTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; METAPHOR; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84876929820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062343     Document Type: Article

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