This paper presents a method for interpreting metaphoric language in the context of a portable natural language inferface. The method licenses metaphoric uses via coercions between incompatible ontological sorts. The machinery allows both previously-known and unexpected metaphoric uses ot be correctly interpreted and evaluated with respect to the backend expert system.
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