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| author | Bressler, Maddalena Mangiaterra, Veronica Canal, Paolo Frau, Federico Luciani, Fabrizio Scalingi, Biagio Pietro, Chiara Barattieri di San Battaglini, Chiara Pompei, Chiara Romeo, Fortunata Bischetti, Luca Bambini, Valentina |
| author_facet | Bressler, Maddalena Mangiaterra, Veronica Canal, Paolo Frau, Federico Luciani, Fabrizio Scalingi, Biagio Pietro, Chiara Barattieri di San Battaglini, Chiara Pompei, Chiara Romeo, Fortunata Bischetti, Luca Bambini, Valentina |
| contents | 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 demand for rigorously constructed and extensively normed experimental materials increased as well. Here, we present the Figurative Archive, an open database of 996 metaphors in Italian enriched with rating and corpus-based measures (from familiarity to semantic distance and preferred interpretations), derived by collecting stimuli used across 11 studies. It includes both everyday and literary metaphors, varying in structure and semantic domains, and is validated based on correlations between familiarity and other measures. The Archive has several aspects of novelty: it is increased in size compared to previous resources; it offers a measure of metaphor inclusiveness, to comply with recommendations for non-discriminatory language use; it is displayed in a web-based interface, with features for a customized consultation. We provide guidelines for using the Archive to source materials for studies investigating metaphor processing and relationships between metaphor features in humans and computational models. |
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| spellingShingle | Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor Bressler, Maddalena Mangiaterra, Veronica Canal, Paolo Frau, Federico Luciani, Fabrizio Scalingi, Biagio Pietro, Chiara Barattieri di San Battaglini, Chiara Pompei, Chiara Romeo, Fortunata Bischetti, Luca Bambini, Valentina Computation and Language 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 demand for rigorously constructed and extensively normed experimental materials increased as well. Here, we present the Figurative Archive, an open database of 996 metaphors in Italian enriched with rating and corpus-based measures (from familiarity to semantic distance and preferred interpretations), derived by collecting stimuli used across 11 studies. It includes both everyday and literary metaphors, varying in structure and semantic domains, and is validated based on correlations between familiarity and other measures. The Archive has several aspects of novelty: it is increased in size compared to previous resources; it offers a measure of metaphor inclusiveness, to comply with recommendations for non-discriminatory language use; it is displayed in a web-based interface, with features for a customized consultation. We provide guidelines for using the Archive to source materials for studies investigating metaphor processing and relationships between metaphor features in humans and computational models. |
| title | Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00444 |