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<p class=MsoNormal>Dear list members,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Researchers in the departments of Computing, and
Linguistics/English Language at Lancaster University (UK) have adapted the
Wmatrix web interface (<a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/</a>)
for the identification of metaphor candidates in discourse. See:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hardie, A., Koller, V., Rayson, P. and E. Semino (2007):
"Exploiting a semantic annotation tool for metaphor analysis", in: M.
Davies, P. Rayson, S. Hunston and P. Danielsson (eds) Proceedings of the Corpus
Linguistics 2007 conference. Available: <a
href="http://corpus.bham.ac.uk/corplingproceedings07/paper/49_Paper.pdf">http://corpus.bham.ac.uk/corplingproceedings07/paper/49_Paper.pdf</a>.
Accessed 25 March 2008. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Koller, V. (2008): "Corpus-assisted metaphor
analysis", presentation at the Corpus Linguistics Research Group,
Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University/UK, 28
April. Available: <a
href="http://ling.lancs.ac.uk/groups/crg/files/CRG-w22-Koller_slides.pdf">http://ling.lancs.ac.uk/groups/crg/files/CRG-w22-Koller_slides.pdf</a>,
<a href="http://ling.lancs.ac.uk/groups/crg/files/CRG-w22-Koller_references.pdf">http://ling.lancs.ac.uk/groups/crg/files/CRG-w22-Koller_references.pdf</a>.
Accessed 7 June 2008. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Koller, V., Hardie, A., Rayson, P. and E. Semino
(forthcoming December 2008): "Using a semantic annotation tool for the
analysis of metaphor in discourse". <span lang=DE>Metaphorik.de 5. </span><a
href="http://www.metaphorik.de"><span lang=DE>http://www.metaphorik.de</span></a><span
lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Veronika Koller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>v.koller_AT_lancaster.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></p>
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