Abstract
This paper offers a preliminary study of how knowledge may be represented differently in different languages. In particular, we account for the contrast between English and Chinese when identical target domain knowledge is represented with two different, yet related, source domains in each language. We incorporate corpora analysis in English and Chinese with SUMO to delimit the source domains identified using the Conceptual Mapping Model (Ahrens. 2002). In particular, this paper investigates economy metaphors with the source domains of AEROPLANE and MOVING VEHICLE. These two source domains are found in Chinese and English respectively. Hence, we ask the question whether these source domains should be conflated under a general source domain such as TransportationDevice or should they form independent source domains. Our study addresses this issue by using the SUMO ontology as well, as the Mapping Principles found in the corpora analysis. Our studies contribute to automatizing the source-target domain mappings in conceptual metaphors.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | NLP-KE 2003 - 2003 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, Proceedings |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 790-796 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 0780379020, 9780780379022 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2003 |
| Event | International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, NLP-KE 2003 - Beijing Media Center, Beijing, China Duration: 26 Oct 2003 → 29 Oct 2003 |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, NLP-KE 2003 |
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| Country/Territory | China |
| City | Beijing |
| Period | 26/10/03 → 29/10/03 |
Keywords
- Text categorization
- Variance
- Weighting algorithm
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Software