Similarity is closeness: Using distributional semantic spaces to model similarity in visual and linguistic metaphors

The semantic similarity that characterizes two terms aligned in a metaphor is here analysed through a corpus-based distributional semantic space. We compare and contrast two samples of metaphors, representative of visual and linguistic modality of expressions respectively. Popular theories of metaph...

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Main Authors: Bolognesi, M, Aina, L
Format: Journal article
Published: De Gruyter 2017