We consider the varieties and directions of influence that the source and target domains
involved in a conceptual metaphor can have on each other during the course of …

Why is Artificial Intelligence concerned with metaphor, and what special contributions can AI
offer to metaphor research? This chapter will indicate why AI needs to study metaphor and …

Allegory is closely related to but importantly different from extended metaphor. Extended
metaphors set up blended spaces. Mental spaces, of which blended spaces are a subset …

I present a language-based, social-interactional, three-stage model of pretend play in which
the cornerstone is children's understanding of pretend as an epistemic operator that …

An implemented system called ATT-Meta is sketched. The system can perform an important
type of metaphor-based reasoning. It is based on an emphasis on source-domain reasoning …

The phenomenon of mixed metaphor has traditionally been viewed as secondary to the
understanding of straight metaphors. This article suggests that such an assumption is …

A detailed approach has been developed for core aspects of the task of understanding a
broad class of metaphorical utterances. The utterances in question are those that depend on …

At CONTEXT'99, the author described the ATT-Meta context-based system for (a) reasoning
uncertainly about agents' beliefs and (b) performing some of the uncertain reasoning …

Metaphor computation has attracted more and more attention because metaphor, to some
extent, is the focus of mind and language mechanism. However, it encounters problems not …

We illustrate how the use of metaphorical views for reasoning with metaphor requires the
mapping of information such as event shape, event rate and mental/emotional states from …