Drum Up SUPPORT: Systematic Analysis of Image-Schematic Conceptual Metaphors

Lennart Wachowiak, Dagmar Gromann, Chao Xu


Abstract
Conceptual metaphors represent a cognitive mechanism to transfer knowledge structures from one onto another domain. Image-schematic conceptual metaphors (ISCMs) specialize on transferring sensorimotor experiences to abstract domains. Natural language is believed to provide evidence of such metaphors. However, approaches to verify this hypothesis largely rely on top-down methods, gathering examples by way of introspection, or on manual corpus analyses. In order to contribute towards a method that is systematic and can be replicated, we propose to bring together existing processing steps in a pipeline to detect ISCMs, exemplified for the image schema SUPPORT in the COVID-19 domain. This pipeline consist of neural metaphor detection, dependency parsing to uncover construction patterns, clustering, and BERT-based frame annotation of dependent constructions to analyse ISCMs.
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2022.flp-1.7
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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FLP)
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
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Debanjan Ghosh, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Smaranda Muresan, Anna Feldman, Soujanya Poria, Tuhin Chakrabarty
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Fig-Lang
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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44–53
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.flp-1.7
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10.18653/v1/2022.flp-1.7
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Lennart Wachowiak, Dagmar Gromann, and Chao Xu. 2022. Drum Up SUPPORT: Systematic Analysis of Image-Schematic Conceptual Metaphors. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FLP), pages 44–53, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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