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US Metaphor-Recognizing Software System Starts Humming

Posted by samzenpus on from the bright-ideas dept.

coondoggie writes "An innovative project, called Autonomous Dynamic Analysis of Metaphor and Analogy, or ADAMA, aims to build a software system that can automatically analyze metaphorical speech in five different languages by analyzing huge quantities of online data got off the ground this week when the U.S. Army Research Laboratory awarded a $1.4 million contract to the team conducting the research. The research is backed by the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), which develops high-risk, reward research projects for the government, and is intended to build a repository of speech metaphors from American/English Iranian Farsi, Mexican Spanish and Russian speakers. ADAMA could have immediate applications in forensics, intelligence analysis, business intelligence, sociological research and communication studies, researchers stated."

5 of 105 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Well, isn't that... by gawaino · · Score: 5, Funny

    Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra?

  2. Re:Well, isn't that... by sconeu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sokath! His eye open!

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  3. Re:Well, isn't that... by SpockLogic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra?

    But, but, but .... with the project called ADAMA it should be from Battlestar Galactica.

  4. Pointing down... by bennomatic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've got your metaphor analysis system *right here*!

    Personally, I think such a system should be called the "Innuendo Engine" as sexual references would end up being the underlying context for the vast majority of decyphered metaphors.

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  5. Re:Well, isn't that... by bwoneill · · Score: 3, Funny

    Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra?

    But, but, but .... with the project called ADAMA it should be from Battlestar Galactica.

    Shaka! When the walls fell.