About
VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus Online
Version: 1.0
Release date: June 27, 2012
The VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus Online is an online database providing a search interface to the VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus:
- largest available corpus hand-annotated for all metaphorical language use, regardless of lexical field or source domain
- based on a systematic and explicit metaphor identification protocol – MIPVU
- covers about 190,000 lexical units from a subset from the BNC-Baby
corpus information
Authors
The corpus has been coded for metaphor by Gerard Steen, Lettie Dorst, Berenike Herrmann, Anna Kaal and Tina Krennmayr. It has been published as a downloadable XML file with OTA.
The annotation manual and a detailed documentation of the project have been published in Steen, G.J., Dorst, A.G., Herrmann, J.B., Kaal, A.A., Krennmayr, T. & Pasma, T. (2010). A method for linguistic metaphor identification. From MIP to MIPVU. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
The online search tool and website have been created in the Metaphor Lab at The Faculty of Arts of VU University Amsterdam by Onno Huber and Tina Krennmayr.
Referencing the corpus
If you use the Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus Online for your work, please name the following reference:
Steen, G.J., Dorst A.G., Herrmann, J.B., Kaal, A.A., Krennmayr, T., Pasma, T. (2010). A method for linguistic metaphor identification. From MIP to MIPVU. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Terms and conditions
License information for the VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus Online
Terms and conditions for use of BNC-materials contained in the corpus