A lexicon of perception for the identification of synaesthetic metaphors in corpora

Francesca Strik Lievers, Chu-Ren Huang


Abstract
Synaesthesia is a type of metaphor associating linguistic expressions that refer to two different sensory modalities. Previous studies, based on the analysis of poetic texts, have shown that synaesthetic transfers tend to go from the lower toward the higher senses (e.g., sweet music vs. musical sweetness). In non-literary language synaesthesia is rare, and finding a sufficient number of examples manually would be too time-consuming. In order to verify whether the directionality also holds for conventional synaesthesia found in non-literary texts, an automatic procedure for the identification of instances of synaesthesia is therefore highly desirable. In this paper, we first focus on the preliminary step of this procedure, that is, the creation of a controlled lexicon of perception. Next, we present the results of a small pilot study that applies the extraction procedure to English and Italian corpus data.
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L16-1360
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2270–2277
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Francesca Strik Lievers and Chu-Ren Huang. 2016. A lexicon of perception for the identification of synaesthetic metaphors in corpora. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2270–2277, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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A lexicon of perception for the identification of synaesthetic metaphors in corpora (Lievers & Huang, LREC 2016)
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