{"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/the-michael-jordan-of-greatness-extracting","title":"\"The Michael Jordan of Greatness\": Extracting Vossian Antonomasia from Two Decades of the New York Times, 1987-2007","arxiv_id":"1902.06428","date":"2019-02-18","proceeding":null,"authors":["Frank Fischer","Robert Jäschke"],"abstract":"Vossian Antonomasia is a prolific stylistic device, in use since antiquity.\nIt can compress the introduction or description of a person or another named\nentity into a terse, poignant formulation and can best be explained by an\nexample: When Norwegian world champion Magnus Carlsen is described as \"the\nMozart of chess\", it is Vossian Antonomasia we are dealing with. The pattern is\nsimple: A source (Mozart) is used to describe a target (Magnus Carlsen), the\ntransfer of meaning is reached via a modifier (\"of chess\"). This phenomenon has\nbeen discussed before (as 'metaphorical antonomasia' or, with special focus on\nthe source object, as 'paragons'), but no corpus-based approach has been\nundertaken as yet to explore its breadth and variety. We are looking into a\nfull-text newspaper corpus (The New York Times, 1987-2007) and describe a new\nmethod for the automatic extraction of Vossian Antonomasia based on Wikidata\nentities. Our analysis offers new insights into the occurrence of popular\nparagons and their distribution.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06428v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.06428v1.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":"the-michael-jordan-of-greatness-extracting","repo_url":"https://github.com/weltliteratur/vossanto","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","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}