As a contribution to metaphor analysis, we introduce a statistical, data-based investigation with empirical analysis of long-standing conjectures and a first-ever empirical exploration of the systematic features of metaphors. Conversely, this also makes metaphor theory available as a basis of meaning emergence that can be quantitatively explored and integrated into the framework of NLP.

翻译：作为对隐喻分析的贡献，我们引入了一项基于统计和数据的实证研究，对长期存在的猜想进行了实证分析，并首次对隐喻的系统性特征进行了实证探索。反之，这也使隐喻理论成为意义涌现的基础，可进行量化探索并整合到自然语言处理框架之中。