In some peacetime future, the DoD will likely release unclassified versions of their work, if it's any good. They've been pretty good at transitioning technology to the public. Sometimes, it happens through engineers polished by the defense contractors who leave and start their own businesses with the knowledge gained from defense work.
Below is a PLOSOne article about metaphor and how it affects reasoning as shown in five experiments. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0016782
Here is the abstract:
The way we talk about complex and abstract ideas is suffused with metaphor. In five experiments, we explore how these metaphors influence the way that we reason about complex issues and forage for further information about them. We find that even the subtlest instantiation of a metaphor (via a single word) can have a powerful influence over how people attempt to solve social problems like crime and how they gather information to make “well-informed” decisions. Interestingly, we find that the influence of the metaphorical framing effect is covert: people do not recognize metaphors as influential in their decisions; instead they point to more “substantive” (often numerical) information as the motivation for their problem-solving decision. Metaphors in language appear to instantiate frame-consistent knowledge structures and invite structurally consistent inferences. Far from being mere rhetorical flourishes, metaphors have profound influences on how we conceptualize and act with respect to important societal issues. We find that exposure to even a single metaphor can induce substantial differences in opinion about how to solve social problems: differences that are larger, for example, than pre-existing differences in opinion between Democrats and Republicans.
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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From my research, the Meta-Net repository is not available to the
general public.
As it is funded by the Department of Defense (of the USA), it may
never be available.
a page that seems to be speaking about it:
http://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/metaphor?highlight=WyJtZXRhcGhvciJd
Searching on Google Scholar with this string seems to be a way of
finding papers about it:
W911NF-12-C-0024 OR W911NF-12-C-0023 OR W911NF-12-C-0020 OR
W911NF-12-C-0022 OR W911NF-12-C-0021 OR W911NF-12-C-0025
ie:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=W911NF-12-C-0024+OR+W911NF-12-C-0023+OR+W911NF-12-C-0020+OR+W911NF-12-C-0022+OR+W911NF-12-C-0021+OR+W911NF-12-C-0025&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C47
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Rich Cooper
<rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ontologists All,
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> Here is an article on metaphor, and on how Heather McCallum-Bayliss, an
> IARPA program manager, was working on metaphor in 2011.
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> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/why-are-spy-researchers-building-a-metaphor-program/239402/?single_page=true
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> Does anyone know of any broadly useful results in metaphor that came out of
> this work, or perhaps you have other metaphor articles?
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> Also, in the way of communities believing in the same ontologies, this
> article says that political bias – either direction – causes people to trust
> or distrust news sources depending on how that source supports their
> preconceived tendency toward left or right persuasions.
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> The roughly 1 in 5 Americans with consistently liberal or conservative
> views, based on a 10-question scale of political opinions, rely on very
> different sources of news and information, and nearly all the sources
> trusted by one side are heavily distrusted by the other.
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> http://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/21/die-hard-liberals-hardcore-conservatives-create-news-bubble-study-finds/17654545/
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> I wonder if that indicates anything about metaphor?
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> -Rich
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> Sincerely,
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> Rich Cooper
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> EnglishLogicKernel.com
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> Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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