This application supports the PhD research question: “Can an AI-enabled system help us understand how cultural narratives are configured, and how do they prime social mobilization?”
Built on Metaphor Field-Loop Theory (Valdivia, 2019) and powered by natural language processing.
Metaphor Manager
Register, organize and review metaphorical expressions from multiple corpora.
Go to ManagerMELT Processing
Compute metaphor detection and analysis via Metaphor Field-Loop Theory.
Go to ProcessingPrevious MELT Model Applications
For previous applications of the MELT model, you can review the following publications:
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Valdivia, P. (2019). Narrating Crises and Populism in Southern Europe: A Cognitive and Cultural Approach to Discourse.
John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047244119865083 -
Valdivia Milla, P., & Valdivia Martín, A. (2023). Conflictive cultural narratives in the collective memory of Spain’s political transition.
In Cultural Narratives in the 21st Century (pp. 45–69). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110707793-003
Project & Funding
Developed by PhD Canditate María Isabel Marín Morales under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Pablo Valdivia.
Graduate School for the Humanities - University of Groningen, NL.
Funded by Convocatoria 906/2021 of the Colombian Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation (minciencias.gov.co).