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title: "A Microfeature Based Approach Towards Metaphor Interpretation"
authors:
  - "Ron Sun"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/56"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0056.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1995
pages: "424-430"
track: "Cognitive Modelling"
keywords:
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# A Microfeature Based Approach Towards Metaphor Interpretation

Ron Sun

*Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 424-430.

## Abstract

This paper advocates a microfeature based approach towards developing computational models for metaphor interpretation . It is argued that the existing models based on semantic networks and mappings of complex symbolic structures are insufficient and inappropriate for modeling metaphors. A connectionist model of metaphor interpretation based on microfeatures is presented, which tries to take into account some important issues, such as accurate capturing of similarity, automatic formation of features , contextual effects, elimination of long paths in conceptual hierarchies, salience imbalance , and feature enhancement . Some of these issues have broad implications in cognitive modeling.