4 papers
Metaphors' journeys across time and genre: tracking the evolution of literary metaphors with temporal embeddings
Veronica Mangiaterra, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Paolo Canal +1
Metaphors are a distinctive feature of literary language, yet they remain less studied experimentally than everyday metaphors. Moreover, previous psycholinguistic and computational…
Can GPT replace human raters? Validity and reliability of machine-generated norms for metaphors
Veronica Mangiaterra, Hamad Al-Azary, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro +2
As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in scientific research, the issue of their trustworthiness becomes crucial. In psycholinguistics, LLMs have been recentl…
Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor
Maddalena Bressler, Veronica Mangiaterra, Paolo Canal +9
Research on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into a range of linguistic and cognitive processes. At the same time, the deman…
MetaClimage: A novel database of visual metaphors related to Climate Change, with costs and benefits analysis
Biagio Scalingi, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Paolo Canal +1
Visual metaphors of climate change (e.g., melting glaciers depicted as a melting ice grenade) are regarded as valuable tools for addressing the complexity of environmental challeng…