Raytheon BBN Technologies

Because a Red Herring Is Not a Fish

Raytheon BBN Technologies is launching a project to collect metaphors from around the world as part of groundbreaking new research into languages.

The goal is to create analysis tools and techniques that will automatically find, identify and categorize linguistic metaphors in large amounts of foreign language text to provide new insight into the underlying cultural beliefs, and worldviews that metaphors reveal.

Under the contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity via the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, the Raytheon BBN team will:

• Develop tools and techniques to identify, qualify and categorize metaphors
• Build a metaphor repository that identifies and links key elements of linguistic metaphors to the conceptual metaphor
• Develop a fully functional metaphorical language analysis system

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