286 research outputs found
Crowd-Sourcing A High-Quality Dataset for Metaphor Identification in Tweets
No full textMetaphor is one of the most important elements of human communication, especially in informal settings such as social media. There have been a number of datasets created for metaphor identification, however, this task has proven difficult due to the nebulous nature of metaphoricity. In this paper, we present a crowd-sourcing approach for the creation of a dataset for metaphor identification, that is able to rapidly achieve large coverage over the different usages of metaphor in a given corpus while maintaining high accuracy. We validate this methodology by creating a set of 2,500 manually annotated tweets in English, for which we achieve inter-annotator agreement scores over 0.8, which is higher than other reported results that did not limit the task. This methodology is based on the use of an existing classifier for metaphor in order to assist in the identification and the selection of the examples for annotation, in a way that reduces the cognitive load for annotators and enables quick and accurate annotation. We selected a corpus of both general language tweets and political tweets relating to Brexit and we compare the resulting corpus on these two domains. As a result of this work, we have published the first dataset of tweets annotated for metaphors, which we believe will be invaluable for the development, training and evaluation of approaches for metaphor identification in tweets
Multilingual dataset of COVID tweets for relation-level metaphor analysis TCMeta 1.0
No full textTCMeta is a dataset of noun phrase constructions from COVID-related tweets, annotated for relation-level metaphor.
It contains 2,138 Slovene and 2,221 English instances in tab-separated tabular format .tsv, where each line presents a unique phrase under consideration, extracted from a COVID-related tweet. The primary annotations include the COVID metaphor label (whether the phrase expresses a metaphor relating to COVID), but also additional ones for idioms, metaphors not relating to COVID, or metaphors not evident on the relation-level.
The complete user tweet could not be published due to the ToS of the then Twitter platform. We recommend retrieving the text of the tweets via their IDs using the Hydrator tool [https://github.com/docnow/hydrator] or similar.
The dataset is further described in:
Brglez, M., Zayed, O. & Buitelaar, P. TCMeta: a multilingual dataset of COVID tweets for relation-level metaphor analysis. Lang Resources & Evaluation 59, 437–475 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-024-09725-z.
@article{brglez2025tcmeta,
title={{TCMeta}: a multilingual dataset of {COVID} tweets for relation-level metaphor analysis},
author={Brglez, Mojca and Zayed, Omnia and Buitelaar, Paul},
journal={Language Resources and Evaluation},
pages={437--475},
volume={59},
year={2025},
publisher={Springer},
doi = {10.1007/s10579-024-09725-z}
Omnia Andreae Alciati V.C. Emblemata : cum commentariis, quibus emblematum detecta origine, dubia omnia, et obscura illustrantur /
No full textEngraved title-page incorporating a portrait of the author by Jakob de Weert; woodcut illustrations of emblems throughout.Includes index.Signatures: ã⁸ ẽ⁸ ĩ⁸ A-3P⁸ 3R⁴.Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese emblem books,Mode of access: Internet.Bound in old vellum; ink title on spine; extensive notes on front pastedown; stamp with monogram and motto on front pastedown
Der Unus-omnia Begriff im Hermetismus des Mittelalters
No full textThis paper analyses a peculiar tenet of Late Antiquity and Medieval Hermetism, namely, the Unus-Omnia and its theological and cosmological meaning. The author’s analysis of relevant passages of Asclepius and Poimander will show that God comes to be the cause of creation, the Gubernator mundi, the Father. Some Glosae super Trismegistum’s passages will show how the Unus-omnia concept was transferred to Christian theology and viewed from the perspective of pure ex- emplarism and creationism. Finally, the author will point out references to the cosmological meaning of the Unus-omnia in three Latin versions of the Emerald Tablet
Metaphor processing in tweets
No full textMetaphor plays an important role in defining the interplay between cognition and language. Despite its fuzziness, this ubiquitous figurative device is an essential element of human communication that allows us (as humans) to better understand and, thus, communicate unfamiliar experiences and concepts in terms of familiar ones. Metaphor comprehension and understanding is a complex cognitive task that includes grasping the interaction between the underlying concepts. This is very challenging for humans, let alone computers.
The last few decades have witnessed a growing interest in automating this cognitive process by introducing a wealth of ideas to model the computational recognition and comprehension of metaphors in text. Many approaches and techniques have been introduced to explore the automatic processing of different types of metaphors and the preparation of metaphor-related resources.
In spite of the attention that metaphor processing has gained recently, the majority of existing approaches do not process metaphors in informal settings such as social media.
Twitter offers a novel way of communication that enables users all over the world to share their thoughts and experiences. The social media content circulated on this platform through the short informal tweets poses a challenge for automatic language processing due to the unstructured nature and brevity of the text as well as the vagueness of topics. Such unique characteristics of tweets, coupled with the importance of studying metaphoric usage on social media motivated me to study metaphor processing in such a context.
Metaphor processing in tweets can be beneficial in many social media analysis applications, including political discourse analysis and health communication analysis.
In this thesis, I investigate the automatic processing of metaphors in tweets focusing on two main tasks, namely metaphor identification and interpretation. My aim is to improve metaphor identification to study the usage of metaphoric language in healthcare communication and political discourse in social media. Furthermore, I aim to improve metaphor interpretation to aid language learners and to enrich lexical resources. I, therefore, study various NLP and deep learning techniques to automatically identify and interpret metaphors in tweets. To the best of my knowledge, there has been no attempt to process metaphors in tweets in part due to the lack of tweet datasets annotated for linguistic metaphor. Thus, the focus of the work presented here is not only introducing models to process metaphors in tweets but also developing the necessary datasets.
Overall, the work is divided into three main research themes; the first focuses on the development of metaphor annotation schemes and the preparation of datasets for both tasks. The second is concerned with the automatic identification of linguistic metaphors in tweets under a relational paradigm which explores three main ideas, namely distributional semantics, meta-embedding learning and contextual modulation. Finally, the last theme focuses on metaphor interpretation along the more complex ``definition generation\u27\u27 approach, which provides full explanation of a given metaphoric expression. Experiments are conducted on the introduced datasets of tweets as well as benchmark metaphor datasets to show the effectiveness of the proposed approaches. Furthermore, the proposed datasets and the best models from this thesis will be made publicly available to facilitate research on metaphor processing in general and in tweets specifically
The Human Resources Strategic Management
No full textThe most of the specialists value the role of the strategies and the tactics in modern societies development, including in the economic field, especially in increasing the companies effectiveness, but also for mezo, macro and worldwide economic levels. As response to some strong requirements, the strategies are used not only in economic field, but also in other ones: political, military, social, educational etc. In Romania, for each field of activity and each organization is necessary to ground, to elaborate, to adopt and to operate realistic scientific strategies; to accelerate this action in human resources field, the most important organizational resources, perhaps this is the most necessary issue. This article targets the following: I. to provide a short description of the strategic management and the strategy’s concepts; II. to emphasize/to highlight the foreign and Romanian specialists points of view out of strategic human resources management; III.to present author`s own considerations about strategic human resources management.human resources; strategic management; strategy; human resources management.
TCMeta: a multilingual dataset of COVID tweets for relation-level metaphor analysis
No full textThe COVID pandemic spurred the use of various metaphors, some very common and universal, others depending on the language, country and culture. The use of metaphors by the general public, especially in languages other than English, has not yet been sufficiently investigated, one of the reasons being the lack of resources and automatic tools for metaphor analysis. To fill this gap, we introduce TCMeta, a dataset of tweets annotated for metaphors around COVID-19, in two languages from ten different countries. The dataset contains metaphoric phrases covering four source domains. Furthermore, we introduce a semi-automatic methodology to annotate more than 2000 tweets in English and Slovene. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first multilingual semi-automatically compiled dataset of user-generated texts aimed at investigating metaphorical language about the pandemic. It is also the first Slovene dataset of tweets annotated for metaphors.The research leading to these results received funding from Science Foundation Ireland under Grant Number SFI/12/RC/2289_P2 (Insight), and from the Slovene Research Agency (ARRS) under the research core funding P6-0215. The project has also received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 883285. The material presented and views expressed here are the responsibility of the author(s) only. The EU Commission takes no responsibility for any use made of the information set out.peer-reviewe
Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas. Etiudy studenckie Filipa Bajona
No full textVanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas: Filip Bajon’s Student EtudesThe author addresses the workshop etudes made by Filip Bajon, which he directed during his studies at the Lodz Film School. Comparing Contribution to the Th eory of Linguistics from 1972, And others from 1973, and Blacks from 1973, she notes both a consistency in style and a similarity in leitmotifs between these and the director’s later works. These is, above all, a profound refl ection on the issue of passing, of both inanimate objects and human existence, and also an attempt to capture causal changes by showing characters in situations that are groundbreaking for them.Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas: Filip Bajon’s Student EtudesThe author addresses the workshop etudes made by Filip Bajon, which he directed during his studies at the Lodz Film School. Comparing Contribution to the Th eory of Linguistics from 1972, And others from 1973, and Blacks from 1973, she notes both a consistency in style and a similarity in leitmotifs between these and the director’s later works. These is, above all, a profound refl ection on the issue of passing, of both inanimate objects and human existence, and also an attempt to capture causal changes by showing characters in situations that are groundbreaking for them
Creativity and Dissidence in Jordanian Women’s Literature
No full textContemporary Jordanian women writers have transported the act of writing into an act of dissidence to reflect their own perspectives and priorities shaped by a distinctive cultural and aesthetic formation. Writers like Huzama Habayeb, Afaf Batayneh, and Leila Elatrash speak with assertive voices about the confinement and even the abuse of Arab women. Their works reveal an unequivocal sense of pride in overthrowing all confinements, while at the same time condemning and combating the abusive excesses of patriarchy when it appropriates and exploits religious and cultural traditions to preserve its own material hegemony. Their discourse strives, with varying degrees of militancy, for an agenda that is quite dissident and threatening to the fabric of the traditional religious and social Arab norms. Some look at the West for a substitute model of their freedom of expression, while others seek an answer within the framework of Arabic culture. Their writing represents not only a fascinating phenomenon of articulating feelings and perspectives of their own by adopting a dissident stance in their use of language and narrative, but also a promise to extend and expand their scope of focus to an apparent militant and confrontational response to the discourse produced by male-made theocracies
Ammatillisen koulutuksen järjestämisestä työelämäosaamisen kehittämispalveluihin - Esimerkkinä Espoon seudun koulutuskuntayhtymä Omnia
No full textTämä tekniikan alan ylemmän ammattikorkeakoulututkinnon opinnäytetyö on tehty Hämeen ammattikorkeakoulun teollisuuden palveluliiketoiminnan koulutusohjelmassa. Opinnäytetyön tekijällä työskentelee Espoon seudun koulutuskuntayhtymän palveluksessa.
Työn tavoitteena on ollut kuvata ammatillisen koulutuksen järjestäminen ja työelämän osaamisen kehittämistehtävä palveluliiketoimintamallina, luoda toimintamalli osaamisen kehittämiseen sekä malli koulutuksen ja työelämässä oppimisen vuorovaikutuksesta. Työn teoreettisessa viitekehyksessä palveluliiketoiminnan viitekehys yhdistyy sekä julkiseen hallintoon, että oppimisen teorioihin. Pääasiallinen tutkimuskohde oli Espoon seudun koulutuskuntayhtymä Omnia, jota lähestyttiin konstruktiivisella tutkimusotteella.
Johtopäätös on, että ammatillisen koulutuksen järjestäjän varsinaisena palvelutehtävänä on työelämäosaamisen kehittäminen. Ammatillisen koulutuksen järjestämisen rinnalla siihen kuuluu työelämän osaamisen kehittäminen sekä yhteiskunnallisena haasteena väestön työelämäosallisuuden edistäminen.
Tilanteilla, jossa osaaminen kehittyy, on useita olemuksellisesti erillisiä asiakaita, jotka ottavat vastaan erottamattomasti saman tarjooman, eli kehittyneen osaamisen. Tämän ohella kuntayhtymä tuottaa myös muita palveluja, joiden avulla rakennetaan toimiva oppimisympäristö työelämäosaamisen kehittämiselle. Myös näiden palvelujen käyttäjät ovat kuntayhtymän asiakkaita.
Opinnäytetyön yhteydessä kehitettiin myös henkilöstön tehtävänkuvauksen menetelmiä sekä tarkasteltiin teoreettisesti koulutuksen ja työn yhteisvaikutusta oppimisprosessissa.This master’s thesis in Technology, Communication and Transport Sector was completed in the Degree Programme of Industrial Service Business. The author of the thesis is employed by the Joint Authority of Education in Espoo Region, Omnia.
The objective of the thesis was to describe the organisation of the vocational education and the development task of working life skills as a model of service business, to create a model of developing skills and a model of interaction between education and working life. In the theoretical framework, the service business framework was attached both to the public administration and learning theories. The main target of research was the Joint Authority of Education, Omnia, which was approached with a constructive research method.
The conclusion is that the real service task was to develop working life skills. Parallel to organising vocational education, developing working life skills was an essential part of it, as well as promoting the participation in working life by the population.
The supposition was that the occasions, where skills were developed, had several distinct customers, who receive an inseparable supply of services, in other words developed skills. In addition to this, Omnia produces also other services, with the help of which a functional learning environment is built for developing working life skills. Also the users of these services are customers of Omnia.
Methods of describing the tasks of personnel were developed in conjunction with the thesis. The joint impact of theoretical education and work in the learning process was also studied
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