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 ;_;