COMPUTATIONAL METAPHOR ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATIONLead Researcher: Eric BaumerCo-Researcher: Jordan Sinclair
Introduction - Metaphors
Not just a poetic device Pervasive in everyday life
Argument IS War
Your claims are indefensible. He attacked every weak point in my
argument. His criticisms were right on target. I demolished his argument. You disagree? Okay, shoot! If you use that strategy, he'll wipe you
out.
Conceptual Metaphor
A structure of what we do and how we understand what we are doing.
Computational Metaphor Identification (CMI)
A research project by Eric Baumer. Informatics Ph.D Student here at UCI, and my mentor.
Project Focus
Political Blogs Political Blog Readers The 2008 Presidential Election
Computational Metaphor Identification (CMI)
A research project by Eric Baumer. Informatics Ph.D Student here at UCI, and my mentor.
To encourage: Reflection Critical Thinking Creativity
Implementaton – Front End
Flex – Flash/Actionscript Framework Javascript jQuery – Javascript Framework HTML AJAX
Implementaton – Back End
MySQL Database Python Mod_Python Apache
Semi-user centered design Blog Reader Study Initial Interviews Prototype User Study
Demo!
And if you download
these slides,
please click the link
and try out the site!
Tell us what you
think!
First, install the JRE, then the JDK. Hopefully you have gcc to compile any loose binaries (and other jargon). You’ll need to get eclipse and about forty plug-ins that must be installed in a precise order, otherwise metaViz will destroy your computer…
Just kidding! metaViz is easily accessible.
Click Here For metaViz
Create Argument is War Argument is a Dance
Participants are performers Goal is to perform in a balanced and
aesthetically pleasing way People would:
view arguments differently experience them differently carry them out differently talk about them differently
Future Work
Lots! Views:
Temporal Comparison
More User Studies! Focus Groups
More ‘Create’
debugging ;_;