From: hoyle@beaufort.sfu.ca (Michelle Hoyle)
Subject: Non-Literal Language Special Issue
Summary: CI Special Issue on NL-LG
Keywords: CI, Non-Literal Language, 8(3)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 00:07:49 GMT

Computational Intelligence 8(3)
Special Issue on Non-Literal Language
Editors: Dan Fass, James Martin, & Elizabeth Hinkelman

Non-literal language is also known as figurative language, or tropical
language, and includes those devices (or tropes) whose meaning cannot
be obtained by direct composition of their constitutent words: idiom,
metaphor, metonymy, simile, hyperbole, irony, sarcasm, indirect
speech acts and implicature, among others.

Non-literal language has historically been given scant attention as a
research topic in the field of natural language processing (NLP), yet
paradoxically, the ubiquity of non-literal language is also cited as a
major stumbling block to truly effective NLP.  However, in recent years
a community of researchers studying these phenomena has been growing
and organizing.  This growth led to a sucessful workshop on 
computational approaches to non-literal language held at the 12th IJCAI in
Sydney, Australia in August 1992 (Fass et al. 1991).  This special
issue grew out of that workshop and contains articles by some of the
workshop participants plus others.

Contents:
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Lytinen, Steven L., Burridge, Robert R., & Kirtner, Jeffrey D.
  The Role of Meaning in the Comprehension of Non-Literal
  Constructions 
 
van der Linden, Erik-Jan
  Idioms, Non-Literal Language and Knowledge Representation

Chin, David N.
  PAU: Parsing and Understanding with Uniform Syntactic, Semantic,
  and Idiomatic Representations
 
Iverson, Eric, & Helmreich, Stephen
  Metallel: An Integrated Approach to Non-Literal Phrase Interpretation
 
Veale, Tony, & Keane, Mark T.
  Conceptual Scaffolding: A Spatially Founded Meaning Representation for
  Metaphor Comprehension
 
Barnden, John A.
  Belief in Metaphor: Taking Commonsense Psychology Seriously
  
Russell, Sylvia Webber
  Metaphoric Coherence: Distinguishing Verbal Metaphor from "Anamoly"

Traum, David R., & Hinkelman, Elizabeth
  Conversation Acts in Task-Orientated Spoken Dialogue

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