Citing MetaNet

Citing the MetaNet databases

To cite a Wiki as a whole, use the following format:

  • MetaNet Group. (2023-). English MetaNet Metaphor Wiki Database. http://metanet.english.ubc.ca/wiki-en/. Accessed (current date).

To cite an individual entry page within a Wiki, use the following format:

  • MetaNet Group. (2023-). “Métafora: POBREZA ES UN ABISMO“. Spanish MetaNet Metaphor Wiki Database. http://metanet.english.ubc.ca/wiki-es/index.php/Metaphor:POBREZA_ES_UN_ABISMO. Accessed (current date).

Citing the MetaNet project

For papers that provide an overview of the project as a whole, we suggest the following:

  • Dodge, Ellen; Hong, Jisup; and Elise Stickles. (2015). MetaNet: Deep semantic automatic metaphor analysis. In E. Shutova, B. B. Klebanov, & P. Lichtenstein (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Metaphor in NLP (pp. 40-49). NAACL HLT 2015.
  • David, Oana. (2017). Computational approaches to metaphor: The case of MetaNet. In B. Dancygier (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 574-589). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316339732.036
  • Sweetser, Eve; David, Oana; and Elise Stickles. (2019). MetaNet: Automated metaphor identification across languages and domains. In M. Bolognesi, M. Brdar, & K. Š. Despot (Eds.), Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language (pp. 21-48). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/milcc.8.02swe

For papers that focus on MetaNet’s contributions to conceptual metaphor theory:

  • David, Oana, Lakoff, George, and Elise Stickles. (2016). Cascades in metaphor and grammar: A case study of metaphors in the gun debate. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 214-253. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.04dav
  • Stickles, Elise, Dodge, Ellen, David, Oana, and Jisup Hong. (2016). Formalizing contemporary conceptual metaphor theory: A structured repository for metaphor analysis. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 166-213. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.03sti

For technical overviews of the MetaNet software design and implementation:

  • Dodge, Ellen; Hong, Jisup; and Elise Stickles. (2015). MetaNet: Deep semantic automatic metaphor analysis. In E. Shutova, B. B. Klebanov, & P. Lichtenstein (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Metaphor in NLP (pp. 40-49). NAACL HLT 2015.
  • Hong, Jisup. (2016). Automatic metaphor detection using constructions and frames. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 295-322. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.06hon

Case studies of particular source or target domains using the MetaNet system:

  • Stickles, Elise, David, Oana, and Eve Sweetser. (2016). Grammatical constructions, frame structure, and metonymy: Their contributions to metaphor computation. Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) 2015, 317-345.
  • Dodge, Ellen. (2016). A deep semantic corpus-based approach to metaphor analysis: A case study of metaphoric conceptualizations of poverty. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 256-294. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.05dod
  • David, Oana, Lakoff, George, and Elise Stickles. (2016). Cascades in metaphor and grammar: A case study of metaphors in the gun debate. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 214-253. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.04dav
  • David, Oana; and Teenie Matlock. (2018). Cross-linguistic automated detection of metaphors for poverty and cancer. Language and Cognition, 10(3), 467-493. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2018.11
  • Sweetser, Eve; David, Oana; and Elise Stickles. (2019). MetaNet: Automated metaphor identification across languages and domains. In M. Bolognesi, M. Brdar, & K. Š. Despot (Eds.), Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language (pp. 21-48). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/milcc.8.02swe