Metaphor and Artificial Intelligence

This special issue arose out of a symposium on metaphor and artificial intelligence in which the main orientation was computational models and psychological processing models of metaphorical understanding. The papers in this issue discuss:*implemented computational systems for handling different aspects of metaphor understanding;*how metaphor can be accommodated in accepted logical representational frameworks;*psychological processes involved in metaphor understanding; and*the cross-linguistic cognitive reality of conceptual metaphors.