Dunn, J. (2020). “Ontological and Grammatical Constraints on Metaphor Productivity.” In Attardo, S. (ed.), Script-Based Semantics Foundations and Applications. Essays in Honor of Victor Raskin. De Gruyter: 55-76. Abstract. Traditional approaches view metaphor as a semantic/pragmatic phenomenon that occurs at a conceptual level as mappings between independent concepts. These conceptual mappings are then lexicalized into … More Ontological and Grammatical Constraints on Metaphor Productivity

Dunn, J. (2011). “Gradient Semantic Intuitions of Metaphoric Expressions.” Metaphor & Symbol, 26(1): 53-67. Abstract. Metaphoric expressions are not all equal, in the sense that some are intuitively more or less metaphoric than others. Part of this intuition is influenced by the underlying metaphor, but another part is influenced by the linguistic expression which carries … More Gradient Semantic Intuitions of Metaphoric Expressions

Dunn, J. (2013). “What Metaphor Identification Systems Can Tell Us About Metaphor-in-Language.” In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: First Workshop on Metaphor in NLP (NAACL 2013). Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics. 1-10. Abstract. This paper evaluates four metaphor identification systems on the 200,000 word … More What Metaphor Identification Systems Can Tell Us About Metaphor-in-Language

Dunn, J. (2013). “Evaluating the Premises and Results of Four Metaphor Identification Systems.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Vol. 1 (CICLING 2013). Heidelberg: Springer. 471-486. Abstract. This study first examines the implicit and explicit premises of four systems for identifying metaphoric utterances from unannotated input text. All four … More Evaluating the Premises and Results of Metaphor Identification Systems

Dunn, J. (2013). “How Linguistic Structure Influences and Helps To Predict Metaphoric Meaning.” Cognitive Linguistics, 24(1): 33-66. Abstract. This paper argues that two properties of the linguistic structure of an utterance influence and partially determine whether the utterance has a metaphoric meaning that results in a stable interpretation: (i) degree of metaphoricity and (ii) degree … More How Linguistic Structure Influences Metaphoric Meaning

Dunn, J.; Beltran de Heredia, J.; Burke, M.; Gandy, L.; Kanareykin, S.; Kapah, O.; Taylor, M.; Hines, D.; Frieder, O.; Grossman, D.; Howard, N.; Koppel, M.; Morris, S.; Ortony, A.; & Argamon, S. (2014). “Language-Independent Ensemble Approaches to Metaphor Identification.” In Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Workshop on Cognitive Computing for Augmented … More Language-Independent Approaches to Metaphor Identification

Dunn, J. (2014). “Multi-Dimensional Abstractness in Cross-Domain Mappings.” In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Workshop on Metaphor in NLP (ACL 2014). Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics. 27-32. Abstract. Metaphor is a cognitive process that shapes abstract target concepts by mapping them to concrete source concepts. Thus, many computational … More Multi-Dimensional Abstractness in Cross-Domain Mappings

Dunn, J. (2014). “Measuring Metaphoricity.” In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014). Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics. 745-751. Abstract. This paper presents the first computationally-derived scalar measurement of metaphoricity. Each input sentence is given a value between 0 and 1 which represents how metaphoric that sentence is. … More Measuring Metaphoricity

Dunn, J. (2015) “Modeling Abstractness and Metaphoricity.” Metaphor & Symbol, 30(4): 259-289. Abstract. This paper presents and evaluates a model of how the abstractness of source and target concepts influences metaphoricity, the property of how metaphoric a linguistic metaphoric expression is. The purpose of this is to investigate the long-standing claim that metaphoric mappings are … More Modeling Abstractness and Metaphoricity

Dunn, J. (2015). “Three Types of Metaphoric Utterances That Can Synthesize Theories of Metaphor.” Metaphor & Symbol, 30(1): 1-23. Abstract. This article argues that there are three types of metaphoric utterances that can be defined by (a) the contextual stability of the utterance’s interpretation and (b) the presence or absence of a conceptual source–target mapping. … More Three Types of Metaphoric Utterances