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INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON NON‐LITERAL LANGUAGE
Author(s) -
Fass Dan,
Martin James,
Hinkelman Elizabeth
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
computational intelligence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1467-8640
pISSN - 0824-7935
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8640.1992.tb00372.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , computer science , linguistics , philosophy
Non-literal language is also known as figurative language, or tropical language, and includes those devices (or tropes) whose meaning cannot be obtained by direct composition of their constituent words: idiom, metaphor, metonymy, simile, hyperbole, irony, sarcasm, indirect speech acts and implicature, among others. Non-literal language has historically been given scant attention as a research topic in the field of natural language processing (NLP), yet paradoxically, the ubiquity of nonliteral language is also cited as a major stumbling block to truly effective NLP. However, in recent years a community of researchers studying these phenomena has been growing and organizing. This growth led to a successful workshop on computational approaches to non-literal language held at the 12th IJCAI in Sydney, Australia in August 1992 (Fass et a f . 1991). This special issue grew out of that workshop and contains articles by some of the workshop participants plus others.