In The Preposition Project (TPP), 13 prepositions have now been analyzed and considerable data made available. These prepositions, among the most common words in English, contain 211 senses. By analyzing the coverage of these senses, it is shown that TPP provides potentially greater breadth and depth than other inventories of the range of semantic roles. Specific inheritance mechanisms are deve...

We present a new lexical resource for the study of preposition behavior, the Pattern Dictionary of English Prepositions (PDEP). This dictionary, which follows principles laid out in Hanks’ theory of norms and exploitations, is linked to 81,509 sentences for 304 prepositions, which have been made available under The Preposition Project (TPP). Notably, 47,285 sentences, initially untagged, provid...

This paper investigates the connection between temporal logic and the semantics of some temporal expressions in English. Specii-cally, we show how the meanings of English temporal preposition-phrases can be expressed as modal operators in an interval-based temporal logic which we call ETL0. We show how cascaded temporal preposition phrases and temporal preposition phrases with complex complemen...

It seems to be common wisdom that prepositions (especially simple prepositions) are highly polysemous. Preposition senses seem to be well explored, as there exists plenty of literature on prepositions and their interpretations. On a closer inspection, however, it turns out that we are far away from a well-structured understanding of preposition senses. There is mutual consent about simple prepo...

This paper presents a novel framework called error case frames for correcting preposition errors. They are case frames specially designed for describing and correcting preposition errors. Their most distinct advantage is that they can correct errors with feedback messages explaining why the preposition is erroneous. This paper proposes a method for automatically generating them by comparing lea...

In this paper, we present the results of a preliminary investigation that aims at constructing a repository of preposition syntactic and semantic behaviors. A preliminary frame-based format for representing their prototypical behavior is then proposed together with related inferential patterns that describe functional or paradigmatic relations between preposition senses.

We are going to present a technique of preposition disambiguation based on sense discriminative patterns, which are acquired using a variant of Angluin’s algorithm. They represent the essential information extracted from a particular type of local contexts we call Chain Clarifying Relationship contexts. The data set and the results we present are from the Semeval task, WSD of Preposition (Litko...