PPT-Automatic Metaphor Interpretation as a Paraphrasing Task

Ekaterina Shutova Computer Lab University of Cambridge NAACL 2010 Outline What is metaphor The idea and overview of the system Experimental data Method Evaluation Conclusion Metaphor in this paper. Easter Island. Diamond writes:. I have often asked myself, “What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it?” Like modern loggers, did he shout “Jobs, not trees!”? Or: “Technology will solve our problems, never fear, we’ll find a substitute for wood”? . Paraphrasing . Objective:. Demonstrate comprehension by paraphrasing facts from informational texts. Gain knowledge and apply what they have learned about paraphrasing by reading information about three unusual animals. Information provided by . purdue. university writing center. Any time you use someone else’s ideas, you MUST give them credit or you are plagiarizing. There are three different ways to use another person’s ideas in your paper, quoting directly, paraphrasing and . This workshop will:. Look at the differences between quoting, paraphrasing and summarising as ways of using sources.  . Explain how and when to use quotations, paraphrases and summaries.  . Introduce you to some basic expectations when paraphrasing. teaching. Zoltán. . Kövecses. Eötvös. . Loránd. University, . Budapest. Key . notions. SYSTEMATICITY. MOTIVATION. THEORETICAL EXPLICITNESS. COHERENCE. CULTURAL EMBEDDEDNESS. SALIENCE. CREATIVITY. Kaline. . Girão. Jamison, PhD student at the Federal University of . Ceara. , Brazil. Ana Cristina Pelosi, Federal University of . Ceara. , Fortaleza, . Brazil. Letícia. Santos, . State. . University. A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that denotes a certain object or idea is applied to another word or . pharse. to imply some similarity between them.. Examples of metaphors using words and phrases the inside . Figurative Language. Expressions that picture, describe, or discuss one thing by . figuring . it in terms of something else.. It is communication via comparison.. Can make an unfamiliar thing or idea more familiar by comparing it to something we all know.. I already use stories in my classroom!. Many of us interject stories into our classrooms . already.. These can be as simple as a. . personal story about the topic at . hand.. Do your students seem more interested when you interrupt an activity or lesson to tell a personal story?. Avoiding Plagiarism:. What are the differences?. Quotations must be identical to the original, using a narrow segment of the source. They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author.. Review:. What is alliteration?. Review:. What is a simile?. Review:. What is a metaphor?. Alliteration, Simile, or Metaphor?. Ex: Wicked Witch of the West. Non. -example: Dorothy and . Todo. Alliteration, Simile, or Metaphor?. Simile- COMPARES 2 things using LIKE or AS. Example: Your smile is like the sun. . Metaphor- COMPARES 2 things . WITHOUT using like or as . Example: You are the apple of my eye. . Simile. or . Metaphor. What do I do when I need to paraphrase ?. Paraphrasing means putting what you have read into your own words.. You paraphrase by . reading. something, . thinking . about what it means, and then . restating it in your own words. Ontario, Canada. BALEAP 2017. From Patchwriting to Paraphrasing to Synthesising:. A . R. hetorical Journey. O. verview. The challenges of EAP and patchwriting. The rhetorical journey. The study: teacher and participants.