Vossian antonomasia is a stylistic device which attributes a certain property to a person by naming another (more well-known, more popular) person as a reference point. For instance, when Jim Koch is described as “the Steve Jobs of Beer”, certain qualities of Steve Jobs, be it entrepreneurship or persuasiveness, are assigned to Jim Koch, co-founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company. VAs consist of three parts: a source (in our example “Steve Jobs”) serves as paragon to elevate the target (“Jim Koch”) by applying a modifier (“of Beer”) that provides the corresponding context. VA is named after Gerardus Vossius (1577– 1649), the Dutch classical scholar and author of rhetorical textbooks, who first distinguished and described VA as a separate phenomenon.
Tweets2011
As part of the TREC 2011 microblog track, Twitter provided identifiers for approximately 16 million tweets sampled between January 23rd and February 8th, 2011. The corpus is designed to be a reusable, representative sample of the twittersphere - i.e. both important and spam tweets are included.
A number of resources have been compiled within the context of the MuchMore project. These include: a bilingual, parallel medical corpus; corresponding queries and relevance assessments; evaluation sets of disambiguated terms for GermaNet and UMLS; an evaluation list for morphological decomposition of medical terms.
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