TITLE:		THE PROBLEM OF METAPHOR IN INTELLIGENT AAC 
		SYSTEMS
AUTHORS:	Mark Jones, Kathleen McCoy and Patrick Demasco 
COMMENTS:	(c) 1992 RESNA Press. Reprinted with permission.


ABSTRACT:	
Intelligent AAC systems, which encode an understanding of language,
cannot afford to ignore the problem of metaphor. Here we discuss the
nature and promise of future AAC systems that handle some metaphorical
statements. We describe the problems that metaphor creates for such
systems, as well as a special class of metaphors called
transparently-motivated metaphors, which are particularly
important. Finally, we point to a possible solution to the problem.