A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Simile and Metaphor Based on a Large Scale Chinese Corpus

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• 关键词：Metaphor mapping ; Attribute inheritance ; TongYiCi CiLin ; Semantic distribution
• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：9427
• 期：1
• 页码：77-88
• 全文大小：593 KB
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• 作者单位：Zhimin Wang (17)
  Yuxiang Jia (18)
  Pierangelo Lacasella (17)
  
  17. Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, 100083, China
  18. Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, China
  
• 丛书名：Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data
• ISBN：978-3-319-25816-4
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  Computer Communication Networks
  Software Engineering
  Data Encryption
  Database Management
  Computation by Abstract Devices
  Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1611-3349

文摘

This paper puts forward the mapping inheritance hypothesis which states that the ultimate goal of mapping is to inherit the attributes of source domains by comparing structures ‘as A as Y’(像Y一样A) and ‘n n/n + n’. Furthermore, we have built a knowledge base for simile and explored the distribution of source domain and its attribute hierarchy. The study shows that the number of S domain words in Chinese simile is different from metaphor, they only have in common 155 S domain words. Although simile and metaphor both tend to choose the semantic category B_object as their source domain, simile expressions are more likely to choose plants and animals, metaphorical expressions are more likely to choose inanimate objects.