Moving Right Along: A Computational Model of Metaphoric Reasoning About Events

Abstract

This paper describes the results of an implemented computational model that cashes out the belief that metaphor interpretation is grounded in embodied primitives. The specific task addressed is the interpretation of simple causal narratives in the domains of Politics and Economics. The stories are taken from newspaper articles in these domains. When presented with a preparsed version of these narratives as input, the system described is able to generate commonsense inferences consistent with the input. Introduction This paper describes the results of an implemented computational model that cashes out the belief that metaphor interpretation is grounded in the embodied primitives of motion and manipulation. The specific task addressed is the interpretation of simple causal narratives in the domains of Politics and Economics. The stories are taken from newspaper articles in these domains. When presented with a pre-parsed version of these narratives as input, the system describe...