Main principles and methods of the Russian-language corpus of conceptual metaphor: BRAT annotation tool

The paper presents the principles and methods of creation of the ongoing project of the Russian corpus of conceptual metaphor. The use of the BRAT Rapid Annotation Tool is presented. The two levels of annotation, the surface and the deep ones, are described. In particular, the annotation and description of metaphor-related words at the surface level, performed by means of the linguistic metaphor identification procedure MIPVU are considered. The annotation and description of conceptual metaphors at the deep level are regarded. Annotated examples of various classes of metaphor-related words and occurrences of conceptual metaphor in the corpus of the Russian Language are given.