Interpretation of metaphor and the principle of conceptual fuzzy sets

The utterance ‘She is a bulldozer’ is not interpreted by a person to refer to a piece of construction equipment but to mean something like ‘She is powerful’. Thus, interpretations of language are affected by contexts. This phenomenon does not only apply to metaphor. According to ‘Metaphors We Live By’ (Lakoff and Johnson[1]), our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature. The subject of research is a typical metaphor ‘A is B’, which is a foundation of interpretations, and we propose the model interpretation of metaphor along with the principle of conceptual fuzzy sets. We used news documents as a corpus, experimented on the appropriateness of a proposed system, and then evaluated it.