{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/as-cool-as-a-cucumber-towards-a-corpus-of","title":"As Cool as a Cucumber: Towards a Corpus of Contemporary Similes in Serbian","arxiv_id":"1605.06319","date":"2016-05-20","proceeding":null,"authors":["Nikola Milosevic","Goran Nenadic"],"abstract":"Similes are natural language expressions used to compare unlikely things,\nwhere the comparison is not taken literally. They are often used in everyday\ncommunication and are an important part of cultural heritage. Having an\nup-to-date corpus of similes is challenging, as they are constantly coined\nand/or adapted to the contemporary times. In this paper we present a\nmethodology for semi-automated collection of similes from the world wide web\nusing text mining techniques. We expanded an existing corpus of traditional\nsimiles (containing 333 similes) by collecting 446 additional expressions. We,\nalso, explore how crowdsourcing can be used to extract and curate new similes.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06319v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.06319v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"as-cool-as-a-cucumber-towards-a-corpus-of","repo_url":"https://github.com/nikolamilosevic86/SerbianComparisonExtractor","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}