The project is consisted with two main steps. First step for building a text corpus of metaphors and second step for implementing the search engine on built dataset. It is planned to collect 100 Sinhala songs and there can be more than 100 metaphors. The attributes of the metaphors and songs are as below.
- Lyrics
- Lyricist
- Album
- Year
- Metaphors
- Type of Metaphor
- Source Domain
- Target Domain
- Interpretation
The main objective of this project is that providing highly relevant metaphors for the users according to the searching keywords or phrases.