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Dan Fass

Dan Fass has 2 papers in our library, in 1991, most of them on Idioms & multiword expressions.

2 papers in our library · 1991

OpenAlex · h-index 12 · 33 works · 854 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 108 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4878

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 Affiliations

🎓Simon Fraser UniversityBurnaby · Canada1989–2007 · 15 paperscurrent🎓New Mexico State UniversityLas Cruces · United States1985–1990 · 7 papers

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 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksPsychology · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 1 workComputer Science · 1 work

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Idioms & multiword expressions · 2 works

💡 Concepts 1Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.Cognitive linguistics · 1 work

 Works by year

1990s

19912 papers

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. met*: A Method for Discriminating Metonymy and Metaphor by Computer (1991 · 270 citations)
    Metaphor and metonymy are both non-literal, but they work differently. A metaphor such as a car that "drinks" gasoline casts one thing as another. A metonymy such as a ham sandwich "waiting" for a bill lets one thing refer to another. Earlier theory left the two vaguely defined, and few computational accounts had…
  2. A Computational Model of Metaphor Interpretation (1991 · 42 citations)
    Metadata mismatch: the supplied text does not come from Fass's paper on metaphor interpretation. It is the closing part of a book review of an edited volume on computational Functional Grammar (FG). This summary covers only that text. The library entry should be checked against the original PDF.

Venues

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 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 108 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 10 citing papers with a page here →.

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