New paper on deliberate and non-deliberate metaphor in online religious communication

Sebastian Reimann and Tatjana Scheffler (Bochum University, Germany) have published a computational linguistic study of metaphor use on an online Reddit forum about religion in their Metaphors in Online Religious Communication: A Detailed Dataset and Cross-Genre Metaphor Detection – ACL Anthology. The paper addresses automatic metaphor identification and subsequent deliberate metaphor identification in a highly innovative and persuasive manner.