[Corpora-List] EmoText - Software for opinion mining and lexical affect sensing

[Justin Washtell]

John,

> I doubt that any statistical technique could do much with that data.

With the exception of dead metaphors, isn't metaphorical language almost by definition highly creative [productive]? In that light, your analyses seems rather restrictive...

How many times do you find "it's the _ of _"?
And "Chicken Tikka Masala"?

Justin Washtell
University of Leeds
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On 12/23/2011 11:31 AM, Justin Washtell wrote:
> stuff like the kind of metaphors people use
> ("it's the Chicken Tikka Masala of mobile phones")

I checked Google for the phrase "it's the Chicken Tikka Masala of"
and found only three terms after "of":  "Thai food", "religion",
and a non-metaphorical word "course".

If you drop the words "it's the" from the front, you get many
non-metaphorical terms like "India", "course", and "all time",
along with some metaphorical examples like "a film".  You also
get the word "it", which could point to a metaphorical term,
but in the examples I checked, the referent was non-metaphorical.

I doubt that any statistical technique could do much with that data.

> ... no amount of tuning on the data is going to solve the problem:
> rather it suggests that something about our base model is inadequate.

Fundamental principle: If you want a computer to understand language,
you need to design a system that can understand language.

John






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