193 simile constructions comparing the coronavirus to other concepts, collected from digital media between March 2020 and February 2022. The dataset includes 98 examples in English and 95 in Spanish, compiled by ROMANO MOZO, MANUELA. It was harvested from the e-cienciaDatos Dataverse repository and last updated in October 2025.
Use Cases
- Analyze conceptual mappings of the pandemic based on simile targets mentioned in the description
- Study diachronic patterns in figurative language use based on the two-year time range
- Compare cross-linguistic framing of COVID-19 based on the parallel English and Spanish collections
- Train models for simile or metaphor detection in news and social media text
Strengths
- Contains 193 specific simile examples (98 English, 95 Spanish).
- Covers a defined two-year period from March 2020 to February 2022.
- Focuses on a specific linguistic construction ('virus is like X').
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect source bias inherent to internet searches.
Provenance
- Source
- ROMANO MOZO, MANUELA via e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Examples were searched for on the Internet.
- Time Range
- March 2020 to February 2022
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-14 21:29:37; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
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