Research on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into a range of linguistic and cognitive processes. At the same time, the demand for rigorously constructed and extensively normed experimental materials increased as well. Here, we present the Figurative Archive, an open database of 996 metaphors in Italian enriched with rating and corpus-based measures (from familiarity to semantic distance and preferred interpretations), derived by collecting stimuli used across 11 studies. It includes both everyday and literary metaphors, varying in structure and semantic domains, and is validated based on correlations between familiarity and other measures. The Archive has several aspects of novelty: it is increased in size compared to previous resources; it offers a measure of metaphor inclusiveness, to comply with recommendations for non-discriminatory language use; it is displayed in a web-based interface, with features for a customized consultation. We provide guidelines for using the Archive to source materials for studies investigating metaphor processing and relationships between metaphor features in humans and computational models.

翻译：近几十年来，隐喻研究持续增长，因为这一现象为探索语言与认知过程提供了重要窗口。与此同时，对严格构建且经过广泛规范的实验材料的需求也日益增加。本文介绍Figurative Archive——一个包含996条意大利语隐喻的开放数据库，该库通过整合11项研究使用的刺激材料，提供了从熟悉度到语义距离及偏好解读的评分与语料库测量指标。数据库涵盖日常隐喻与文学隐喻，在结构和语义域上具有多样性，并通过熟悉度与其他指标的相关性进行了验证。该档案库具有多方面创新性：规模较以往资源显著扩大；提供隐喻包容性度量指标，以符合非歧视性语言使用的建议；配备基于网络的交互界面，支持个性化检索功能。我们提供了使用指南，帮助研究者利用该档案库获取材料，用于探究隐喻加工过程以及人类与计算模型中隐喻特征间的关系。