--- abstract: 'This paper presents a computational model of referential metaphor comprehension. This model is designed on top of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a model of the representation of word and text meanings. Compre­hending a referential metaphor consists in scanning the semantic neighbors of the metaphor in order to find words that are also semantically related to the context. The depth of that search is compared to the time it takes for humans to process a metaphor. In particular, we are interested in two independent variables : the nature of the reference (either a literal meaning or a figurative meaning) and the nature of the context (inductive or not inductive). We show that, for both humans and model, first, metaphors take longer to process than the literal meanings and second, an inductive context can shorten the processing time.' altloc: - http://www.upmf-grenoble.fr/sciedu/blemaire/iccm03_lemaire.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: 'April, 2003' conference: 5th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (ICCM) confloc: 'Bamberg, Germany' contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Lemaire given: Benoit honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Bianco given: Maryse honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2003 date_type: published datestamp: 2003-10-09 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/32/05 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Detje given: F honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Dörner given: D honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Schaub given: H honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 3205 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/3205/1/iccm03_lemaire.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: |- Latent Semantic Analysis metaphor simulation lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:21 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 153-158 pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: |+ Budiu, R. & Anderson, J.R. 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