Illness as metaphor in news articles: an application of metaphor detection
Mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder often have stigma and prejudice attached to them. Public perception of such disorders is generally negative, and these perceptions lead to debilitating effects on the diagnosis and treatment of patients. One common form of expression the...
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| author | Mishra, Spriha Bankata |
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| description | Mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder often have stigma and
prejudice attached to them. Public perception of such disorders is generally negative, and
these perceptions lead to debilitating effects on the diagnosis and treatment of patients. One
common form of expression these stigmatising beliefs take is through metaphor. Metaphors
involve mapping an abstract domain to another, often more concrete one. Metaphorical
references to mental disorders are often used to evoke negative feelings and associations.
Such references are present in various forms of media and reflect cognitive beliefs about these
disorders. This project examines the domain of news articles to collate metaphorical references
to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder by leveraging a state-of-the-art metaphor detection
model. Thus, this project studies one possible application of the powerful computational
models for metaphor detection evolving today. News articles from various American
and Singaporean publications are investigated for metaphorical references to the mental
disorders and the implications of these references are discussed. Metaphorical usage of these
terms is impossible to fully eradicate, but bringing attention to the problem is a crucial first step.
Keywords: Metaphor Detection, News Articles, Illness as Metaphor, Schizophrenia,
Bipolar Disorder |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1565692022-04-20T07:19:36Z Illness as metaphor in news articles: an application of metaphor detection Mishra, Spriha Bankata Erik Cambria School of Computer Science and Engineering cambria@ntu.edu.sg Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence Mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder often have stigma and prejudice attached to them. Public perception of such disorders is generally negative, and these perceptions lead to debilitating effects on the diagnosis and treatment of patients. One common form of expression these stigmatising beliefs take is through metaphor. Metaphors involve mapping an abstract domain to another, often more concrete one. Metaphorical references to mental disorders are often used to evoke negative feelings and associations. Such references are present in various forms of media and reflect cognitive beliefs about these disorders. This project examines the domain of news articles to collate metaphorical references to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder by leveraging a state-of-the-art metaphor detection model. Thus, this project studies one possible application of the powerful computational models for metaphor detection evolving today. News articles from various American and Singaporean publications are investigated for metaphorical references to the mental disorders and the implications of these references are discussed. Metaphorical usage of these terms is impossible to fully eradicate, but bringing attention to the problem is a crucial first step. Keywords: Metaphor Detection, News Articles, Illness as Metaphor, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) 2022-04-20T07:19:36Z 2022-04-20T07:19:36Z 2022 Final Year Project (FYP) Mishra, S. B. (2022). Illness as metaphor in news articles: an application of metaphor detection. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156569 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156569 en SCSE21-0236 application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence Mishra, Spriha Bankata Illness as metaphor in news articles: an application of metaphor detection |
| title | Illness as metaphor in news articles: an application of metaphor detection |
| title_full | Illness as metaphor in news articles: an application of metaphor detection |
| title_fullStr | Illness as metaphor in news articles: an application of metaphor detection |
| title_full_unstemmed | Illness as metaphor in news articles: an application of metaphor detection |
| title_short | Illness as metaphor in news articles: an application of metaphor detection |
| title_sort | illness as metaphor in news articles an application of metaphor detection |
| topic | Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence |
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