Using Metaphors to Present Concepts Across Different Intellectual Domains

A system for generating content of a topic for an intended audience, comprising:

• a metaphor determining module configured to select one or more metaphors based at least in part on topic information and knowledge domain information regarding an intended audience;
• a term correlating module configured to determine one or more terms related to at least one metaphor of the one or more metaphors that correlate to one or more terms of the topic information;
• and
• a content generating module configured to prepare content for the topic information targeted to the intended audience based at least in part on the one or more terms related to the metaphor.

A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instructions comprising program code instructions for:

• obtaining topic information regarding a topic to be presented to an intended audience;
• obtaining knowledge information regarding the intended audience;
• determining one or more metaphors relating to the topic and the intended audience based at least in part on the topic information and the knowledge information;
• and
• generating content for the topic information based on a comparative analysis of the topic information to at least one of the one or more metaphors.