List of accomplished work plan goals

Planned result of the work plan (for the first year of the project)

  • Detailed work plan
  • Buying equipment
  • Contracts with two programmers
  • The construction of a computer framework for the project using web2py
  • Developing automatic metaphor detection
  • Bibliography and project literature database
  • Presenting the project to the public and holding a seminar for young researchers: “Introduction to neural theory of language and thought” and “Introduction to conceptual metaphor theory”
  • Seminar for young researchers: “Metaphor, metonymy, etc: Separating the wheat from the chaff?
  • Seminar for young researchers: “Using Python in the Croatian language metaphor repository project and in NLP”
  • Seminar for young researchers: “Metaphor in NLP”
  • Wiki site and a completed database of event structure metaphors
  • A research paper on event structure metaphors (with subgroups)
  • Report after the first big objective is achieved (EVENT STRUCTURE METAPHORS)
  • Wiki site and a completed database of mind metaphors (with subgroups)
  • A research paper on mind metaphors (with subgroups)
  • An experiment involving event structure metaphors (with subgroups)
  • Other experiments
  • Report after the second big objective is achieved (MIND METAPHORS)
  • Making the wiki site, the project website and the MetaNet.HR database freely available to the public (event structure and mind metaphors)

 


Planned result of the work plan (for the first year of the project)

  • Organizing Building Metaphor Repositories: Methods, Risks and Challenges, a symposium and round table (all team members are part of the organizing committee and participants of the round table)
  • Metaphors of economy, their frames, image schemata and cogs added to the repository after theoretical and corpus analysis
  • Metaphors of governance, their frames, image schemata and cogs added to the repository after theoretical and corpus analysis
  • Metaphors of wellbeing, their frames, image schemata and cogs added to the repository after theoretical and corpus analysis
  • Popular science article on metaphoric framing of (Croatian) political discourse in print (author: Kristian Štrkalj Despot, title: Metafore u (hrvatskoj) politici in print in Hrvatski jezik, a popular science magazine)
  • Conference presentation on metaphors of economy, politics, governance or wellbeing (The Role of Metaphor and Understanding Terrorism (Based on the Analysis of the Croatian Web Corpus) Benedict Perak and Kristina Štrkalj Despot presented at the conference RaAM 11, in Berlin, July 2016)
  • Developing a triple store using a Virtuoso open server
  • Programming in SparQL and Python for processing metaphor data
  • Visualisation of metaphors using graphs amd JS development tools
  • Constructing a repository of linked data in RDF/OWL format
  • Developing tools for searching and grouping data
  • Project meetings (three project meetings)
  • Report after third big objective is achieved (metaphors of economy, governance and wellbeing)
  • Metaphors of time, their frames, image schemata and cogs added to the repository after theoretical and corpus analysis
  • Research article in the field of time conceptualization (with and experiment, if possible) submitted to a international or Croatian A1 journal
  • Presentation of work on time conceptualization at a conference (Mirjana Tonković and Kristina Štrkalj Despot presented Time-moving and Ego-moving Metaphors in Croatian: An experimental study at Metaphor Festival in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 31/8/2016 – 3/9/2016)
  • Report after fourth big objective is achieved (metaphors of time)
  • Metaphors of morality, their frames, image schemata and cogs added to the repository after theoretical and corpus analysis
  • Research article on metaphoric framing of morality sent to a international or Croatian A1 journal
  • Showcasign results of the project research after fifth big objective is achieved (metaphors of morality) at a public presentation
  • Report after fifth big objective is achieved (metaphors of morality)
  • Research training in Metaphor Lab in Amsterdam, mentored by Gerard Steen (Kristina Štrkalj Despot, March 2016)
  • Seminars for junior researchers (a series of presentations and classes held for junior researchers and other interested parties: http://ihjj.hr/metafore/en/usavrsavanja/; http://ihjj.hr/metafore/en/ostala-izlaganja/
  • Team members participation in research training (http://ihjj.hr/metafore/en/usavrsavanja/)