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  • Conceptual Scoffolding: A Spatially-founded Meaning Representation for Metaphor Comprehension 

    Veale, Tony; Keane, Mark T. (Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer Science, 1992-04)
    Once viewed as a rhetorical and superficial language phenomenon, metaphor is now recognized to serve a fundamental role in our conceptual structuring and language comprehension processes. In particular, it is argued that ...

  • Epistemological Pitfalls in Metaphor Comprehension: A Comparison of Three Models and a New Theory of Metaphor 

    Veale, Tony; Keane, Mark T. (Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer Science, 1995-12)
    [Introduction] If metaphor is to be viewed as a fundamental cognitive agency, as recent work suggests, what ramifications does this view have for a model of semantic memory? This paper presents a computational treatment ...

  • On the Limitations of Memory Based Reasoning 

    Cunningham, Padraig; Smyth, Barry; Veale, Tony (Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer Science, 1994-11)
    Memory-Based Reasoning (MBR) represents a radical new departure in AI research. Whereas work in symbolic AI is based on inference and knowledge representation MBR depends on using a large memory of examples as a reasoning ...