Amnestic Forgery: an Ontology of Conceptual Metaphors
This work addresses the problem of formalizing metaphor semantics for researchers in computational linguistics and AI, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing frameworks like MetaNet and Framester.
The paper introduces Amnestic Forgery, an ontology for metaphor semantics based on MetaNet and Conceptual Metaphor theory, extending the Framester schema to handle semiotic and referential aspects of frames, roles, mappings, and blending, with applications demonstrated in metaphor generation and referential problems.
This paper presents Amnestic Forgery, an ontology for metaphor semantics, based on MetaNet, which is inspired by the theory of Conceptual Metaphor. Amnestic Forgery reuses and extends the Framester schema, as an ideal ontology design framework to deal with both semiotic and referential aspects of frames, roles, mappings, and eventually blending. The description of the resource is supplied by a discussion of its applications, with examples taken from metaphor generation, and the referential problems of metaphoric mappings. Both schema and data are available from the Framester SPARQL endpoint.