Aspect and Verbal Prepositions

Deriving Verbal and Compositional Lexical Aspect for NLP Applications

Verbal and compositional lexical aspect provide the underlying temporal structure of events. Knowledge of lexical aspect, e.g., (a)telicity, is therefore required for interpreting event sequences in discourse (Dowty, 1986; Moens and Steedman, 1988; Passoneau, 1988), interfacing to temporal databases (Androutsopoulos, 1996), processing temporal modifiers (Antonisse, 1994), describing allowable a...

Disambiguating Homographous Prepositions and Verbal Particles In An Implemented Ontological Semantic Analyzer

The paper discusses the lexical description and runtime disambiguation of homographous prepositions and verbal particles in English using the Ontological Semantic (OntoSem) text processing environment. It describes the knowledge resources and processors that permit – in all but the most genuinely ambiguous of cases – an unambiguous text-meaning representation (TMR) to be created from input cont...

On Representing Governed Prepositions and Handling "Incorrect" and Novel Prepositions

NLP systems, in order to be robust, must handle novel and i l l formed input . One common type of error involves the use of non-s tandard preposit ions to mark arguments . In this paper, we argue that such errors can be handled in a systematic fashion, and that a system designed to handle them offers other advantages. We o f f e r a c lass i f i ca t ion scheme for preposi t ion usage errors. F...

Quantificational prepositions

In this note we discuss a couple of Dutch prepositions that systematically combine with a common noun phrase, without any determiner. We explore whether we can analyze these prepositions as having ‘incorporated’ a determiner, semantically speaking, and discuss the consequences of this analysis for the status of bare nominals, the demarcation of syntactic and semantic categories, and the relatio...

Biotechnology and Social Aspect