We evaluate the possibility to learn, in an unsupervised manner, a list of idiomatic word combinations of the type preposition + noun phrase + preposition (P NP P), namely, such groups with three or more simple forms that behave as a whole lexical unit and have semantic and syntactic properties not deducible from the corresponding properties of each simple form, e.g., by means of, in order to, ...

This paper addresses the problem of the identification of the semantic relations in Italian complex nominals (CNs) of the type N+P+N. We exploit the fact that the semantic relation, which is underspecified in most cases, is partially made explicit by the preposition. We develop an annotation framework around five different semantic relations, which we use to create a corpus of 1700 Italian CNs,...

Przepiórkowski 2010 argues that there are in fact two different functional lexemes po in Polish: a preposition, exemplified by (1), and an adnumeral operator (in the sense of the classification of functional parts of speech in Polish by Grochowski 1997), exemplified by (2). The main difference between them is that the distributive preposition po assigns the locative case, which is a strictly pr...

This paper reports on experiments in classifying the semantic role annotations assigned to prepositional phrases in both PENN TREEBANK (version II) and FRAMENET (version 0.75). In both cases, experiments are done to see how the prepositions can be classified given the dataset’s role inventory, using standard word-sense disambiguation features, such as the parts of speech of surrounding words, a...

Fill-in-the-blank items are commonly featured in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) systems. An item displays a sentence with a blank, and often proposes a number of choices for filling it. These choices should include one correct answer and several plausible distractors. We describe a system that, given an English corpus, automatically generates distractors to produce items for preposi...

The purpose of the study is to find out features phrases in interlanguage Chinese students studying Russian language. By analyzing a number works related term "interlanguage", comparing concept publications various specialists, article "interlanguage" clarified, which has been updated recent years and foreign linguistics, similarities differences their understandings are found. Highlighting stu...

Over time, lexical items are recycled and take on different or additional meanings from the ones they originally had. Somewhat surprisingly, may converse meanings. This is case with prepositions besides beyond, which signal either inclusion exclusion, depending context. An etymological examination shows that over both words have undergone semantic extension their original spatial Syntactically,...