Researchers mine millions of metaphors through computer-based techniques

[Henry Musikar]

Kinda like herding cats to a tree:

"Metaphors cannot be taught, asserted the great philosopher Aristotle. "It
is the one thing that cannot be learned from others."

But a computer scientist and a literary historian say he's wrong. 

In a project started at Stanford University, the researchers are teaching
computers how to analyze texts from Plato to Pynchon, mining millions of
these abstract phrases. (Metaphorically speaking.)"

Henry Mu, who, FWIW, is now running everything but KCUF on Windows 7