Analysis of the quotation corpus of the Russian Wiktionary The quantitative evaluation of quotations in the Russian Wiktionary was performed using the developed Wiktionary parser. It was found that the number of quotations in the dictionary is growing fast (51.5 thousands in 2011, 62 thousands in 2012). These quotations were extracted and saved in the relational database of a machinereadable dictionary. For this database, tables related to the quotations were designed. A histogram of distribution of quotations of literary works written in different years was built. It was made an attempt to explain the characteristics of the histogram by associating it with the years of the most popular and cited (in the Russian Wiktionary) writers of the nineteenth century. It was found that more than onethird of all the quotations (the example sentences) contained in the Russian Wiktionary are taken by the editors of a Wiktionary entry from the Russian National Corpus.

Construction of a CorpusBased Metaphor Generation Support System Built on Japanese Literature Metaphor generation is influenced by emotional or sensuous knowledge structure. Hence, there is a possibility that it might be difficult to select an adequate vehicle in metaphor generation. The purpose of this research is to construct a metaphor database based on a literature corpus and use the database to build a metaphor generation support system. At first, sentences including metaphors were extracted from a literature corpus. The extracted sentences were analyzed using dependency parsing in order to construct a metaphor database for the metaphor generation system. The system outputs candidate vehicles from a given topic and its expressed features by searching the sentences including the topic or the features in the database. Furthermore, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the usability of the system. In the experiment, participants were asked to generate a sentence including a metaphor from a shown image with or without the system. Thirdparty evaluation was conducted to evaluate the metaphors generated in the experiment. The results seem to suggest the efficiency of the system.