16 November: DCLRS -- Tony Veale - Friday 18 November, 4pm, UCD
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The next Computational Linguistics Research Seminar will feature a
talk by Tony Veale, of UCD Dublin, School of Computer Science and
Informatics.
The seminar will take place
- on Friday November 18,
- at 4pm
- in Room B1.09
- in UCD's School of Computer Science and Informatics, Belfield Campus
All are welcome to attend.
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Tony Veale:
Title:
Re-Representation and Creative Analogy: A Lexico-Semantic Perspective
Abstract:
Analogy is a powerful boundary-transcending process that exploits a
conceptual system's ability to perform controlled generalization in one
domain and re-specialization into another. The result of this semantic
leap is the transference of meaning from one concept to another from
which metaphor derives its name (literally: to carry over). Such
generalization and re-specialization can be achieved using a variety of
re-representation techniques, most notably abstraction via a taxonomic
backbone, or selective projection via structure-mapping over
propositional content. In this talk I explore both the extent to which a
bilingual lexical ontology for English and Chinese, called HowNet, can
support each technique, and the extent to which both are, ultimately,
variations of the same process of creative re-representation.
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The support for DCLRS2005 given by the School of Computer Science and
Informatics, UCD Dublin,
is gratefully acknowledged.
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