The paper presents an architecture for multimodal mood-based annotation systems. The architecture aims at the implementation of interactive multimodal systems to support communities of users in the creation and management of annotations in locative media projects. The annotations are multimodal in that they can be created and accessed through visual and audio interaction. The annotations are mo...

The paper examines how people’s judgements of proximity between two objects are influenced by the presence of a third object. In an experiment participants were presented with images containing three shapes in different relative positions, and asked to rate the acceptability of a locative expression such as ‘the circle is near the triangle’ as descriptions of those images. The results showed an...

In this paper we present an experimental study on native speakers’ access to lexical relations among spatial relations. Our main focus is a still poorly understood domain: the lexical relations that hold between (pairs of) directional spatial prepositions (from, to) and locative prepositions (at). Two broad families of proposals exist in the literature. One family suggests that the members of t...

Prepositions combine with nouns flexibly when describing concrete locative relations (e.g. at/on/in the school) but are rigidly prescribed when paired with abstract concepts (e.g. at risk; on Wednesday; in trouble). In the former case they do linguistic work based on their discrete semantic qualities, and in the latter they appear to serve a primarily grammatical function. We used the abstract ...

We introduce a graph-theoretical representation of proofs of multiplicative linear logic which yields both a denotational semantics and a notion of truth. For this, we use a locative approach (in the sense of ludics [Gir01]) related to game semantics [HO00, AJM94] and the Danos-Regnier interpretation of GoI operators as paths in proof nets [ADLR94, DR95]. We show how we can retrieve from this l...

Children must learn the structural biases of locative verbs in order to avoid making overgeneralisation errors (e.g., (∗)I filled water into the glass). It is thought that they use linguistic and situational information to learn verb classes that encode structural biases. In addition to situational cues, we examined whether children and adults could use the lexical distribution of nouns in the ...

The Saami languages utilize a long-established progressive construction based on the inflected copula verb and so-called action essive form of main verb, for example North lea dahkamin ‘is doing’ dahkat ‘to do’. present paper examines an apparently innovative that has not been described before, similarly appearing in function but locative case deverbal noun -u, jođus going’ johtit travel, go, b...