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This paper puts forward the mapping inheritance hypothesis which states that the ultimate goal of mapping is to inherit the attributes of source domains by comparing structures ‘as A as Y’(像Y一样A) and ‘n n/n + n’. Furthermore, we have built a knowledge base for simile and explored the distribution of source domain and its attribute hierarchy. The study shows that the number of S domain words in Chinese simile is different from metaphor, they only have in common 155 S domain words. Although simile and metaphor both tend to choose the semantic category B_object as their source domain, simile expressions are more likely to choose plants and animals, metaphorical expressions are more likely to choose inanimate objects.
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The work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (No. 61170163, 61402419), the support program of young and middle-aged backbone teachers for Beijing Language and Culture University.
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Wang, Z., Jia, Y., Lacasella, P. (2015). A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Simile and Metaphor Based on a Large Scale Chinese Corpus. In: Sun, M., Liu, Z., Zhang, M., Liu, Y. (eds) Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data. CCL NLP-NABD 2015 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9427. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25816-4_7
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