Coping with Construals in Broad-Coverage Semantic Annotation of Adpositions

Double Trouble: The Problem of Construal in Semantic Annotation of Adpositions

We consider the semantics of prepositions, revisiting a broad-coverage annotation scheme used for annotating all 4,250 preposition tokens in a 55,000 word corpus of English. Attempts to apply the scheme to adpositions and case markers in other languages, as well as some problematic cases in English, have led us to reconsider the assumption that an adposition’s lexical contribution is equivalent...

Semantic-Based Image Retrial in the VQ Compressed Domain using Image Annotation Statistical Models

Lexical Databases as a Base for Broad Coverage Ontologies

The paper deals with current lexical databases that are seen as a basis for broad-coverage general-purpose ontologies. Various extensions and refinements of existing multilingual lexical knowledge bases are proposed with the aim of improving the capabilities of these resources. The main goal lies in the effort to gain a better lexical knowledge representation, which is crucial to coping with th...

Turku: Broad-Coverage Semantic Parsing with Rich Features

In this paper we introduce our system capable of producing semantic parses of sentences using three different annotation formats. The system was used to participate in the SemEval-2014 Shared Task on broad-coverage semantic dependency parsing and it was ranked third with an overall F1-score of 80.49%. The system has a pipeline architecture, consisting of three separate supervised classification...

The Problem of English Spatial, Non-spatial and Idiomatic Adpositions in Iranian EFL Environment: A Prototypical Approach

Several studies of L2 learners’ interlanguage have addressed the complexity of the English adpositional system due to several reasons like L1 transfer, lack of knowledge in L2 and the strong collocational relations of prepositions with other elements of the English language. The major purpose of the present study is to evaluate the performance of Iranian students in dealing with three broad cat...