Professor Srini Narayanan, leader of the AI Group, gave a talk at the Research Review about the MetaNet project. His talk was titled "MetaNet: A Multilingual Metaphor Extraction, Representation, and Validation System." Here is the abstract:

Metaphors are ubiquitous in language and thought and pose a critical barrier to progress in natural language understanding. This talk describes recent results from a new interdisciplinary project, MetaNet, whose goal is to be able to extract, analyze, interpret, and experimentally validate metaphors in four languages. This project is a multi-year collaborative effort led by ICSI with participants from UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Stanford, University of Southern California, and UC Merced.

To learn more about MetaNet, visit the project page. You might also be interested in reading about the FrameNet project, one of the longest-running research projects at ICSI, which is focused on frame semantics in general, and has been extended in recent years to cover several languages in addition to English.