Date of Award
Fall 2013
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
English
First Advisor
Victor Raskin
Committee Chair
Victor Raskin
Committee Member 1
Shaun F. D. Hughes
Committee Member 2
Mary K. Niepokuj
Committee Member 3
Julia M. Taylor
Abstract
This dissertation analyzes the problem of metaphor identification in linguistic and computational semantics, considering both manual and automatic approaches. It describes a manual approach to metaphor identification, the Metaphoricity Measurement Procedure (MMP), and compares this approach with other manual approaches. The dissertation then describes an implemented and simplified version of the procedure, Measuring and Identifiying Metaphor-in-Language (MIMIL), and compares the premises of this system with other automatic metaphor identification systems. MIMIL and three existing metaphor identification systems are then evaluated on a common data set. Finally, the dissertation looks at difficulties which face attempts to automatically identify metaphors caused by differing conceptual systems across world varieties of English.
Recommended Citation
Dunn, Jonathan Edwin, "Automatic Identification of Metaphoric Utterances" (2013). Open Access Dissertations. 188.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/188