Discovering Conceptual Metaphors using Source Domain Spaces

no code implementations • WS 2014 • Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Kit Cho, Ting Liu, George Aaron Broadwell, Laurie Feldman, Sarah Taylor, Boris Yamrom, Ching-Sheng Lin, Ning Sa, Ignacio Cases, Yuliya Peshkova, Kyle Elliot

A Multi-Cultural Repository of Automatically Discovered Linguistic and Conceptual Metaphors

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Ting Liu, George Aaron Broadwell, Boris Yamrom, Sarah Taylor, Laurie Feldman, Kit Cho, Umit Boz, Ignacio Cases, Yuliya Peshkova, Ching-Sheng Lin

Researchers in the field can use this resource as a reference of typical metaphors used across these cultures.

Automatic Expansion of the MRC Psycholinguistic Database Imageability Ratings

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Ting Liu, Kit Cho, G. Aaron Broadwell, Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, John Lien, Sarah Taylor, Laurie Feldman, Boris Yamrom, Nick Webb, Umit Boz, Ignacio Cases, Ching-Sheng Lin

Unfortunately, word imageability ratings were collected for only a limited number of words: 9, 240 words in English, 6, 233 in Spanish; and are unavailable at all in the other two languages studied: Russian and Farsi.

Topical Positioning: A New Method for Predicting Opinion Changes in Conversation

no code implementations • WS 2013 • Ching-Sheng Lin, Samira Shaikh, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Jennifer Crowley, Tomek Strzalkowski, Veena Ravishankar

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Revealing Contentious Concepts Across Social Groups

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Ching-Sheng Lin, Zumrut Akcam, Samira Shaikh, Sharon Small, Ken Stahl, Tomek Strzalkowski, Nick Webb

The hypothesis of this work is that there are communities or groups which can be characterized by a network of concepts and the corresponding valuations of those concepts that are agreed upon by the members of the community.