Re-Representing Metaphor: Modeling Metaphor Perception Using Dynamically Contextual Distributional Semantics

In this paper, we present a novel context-dependent approach to modeling word meaning, and apply it to the modeling of metaphor. In distributional semantic approaches, words are represented as points in a high dimensional space generated from co-occurrence statistics; the distances between points ma...

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Main Authors: Stephen McGregor, Kat Agres, Karolina Rataj, Matthew Purver, Geraint Wiggins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00765/full