Metaphor is the new weapon in the ’war’ on terror | Technology | The Observer
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/05/john-naughton-networker-spooks
A branch of the US intelligence service called the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) announced that it would be pouring millions of dollars into a “Metaphor Programme”. (...)
Ah! So it’s computational linguistics on steroids.
flippant, quoiqu’on voit mal à quel genre de prédictions cela pourrait aboutir.
""The Metaphor Programme," said the solicitation (ie call for research proposals) from IARPA’s Office of Incisive Analysis (I am not making this up), “will exploit the fact that metaphors are pervasive in everyday talk and reveal the underlying beliefs and worldviews of members of a culture. In the first phase of the two-phase programme, performers [IARPA’s intriguing term for researchers] will develop automated tools and techniques for recognising, defining and categorising linguistic metaphors associated with target concepts and found in large amounts of native-language text.”
Jolie chute
"The thought that their work might one day fuel the “war” on terror will have generations of literary scholars revolving in their graves. And that’s a metaphor too."