The article is devoted to the functions of local and temporal prepositions in German. Space time are fundamental concepts that exist human mind, which explains importance studying them. Understanding describing spatial relations different languages particular interest both cognitive linguistic terms. study convey makes it possible identify patterns perception world, refracted meanings these lan...

The context for the work we report here is the automatic description of spatial relationships between pairs of objects in images. We investigate the task of selecting prepositions for such spatial relationships. We describe the two datasets of object pairs and prepositions we have created for English and French, and report results for predicting prepositions for object pairs in both of these la...

Using Analogy to Model Spatial Language Use and Multimodal Knowledge Capture Kate Lockwood Language and knowledge capture are two skills that allow us to create structured representations of the physical world for reasoning and communication. Spatial prepositions are a form of specialized language that is used to relate two objects in space. In addition to communicating the static location of o...

People tend to think about time in terms of space, in some languages even with identical vocabulary. It is therefore plausible to assume that the frame of reference (FOR) preferred for spatial descriptions also helps to organize temporal descriptions. Further still: If languages differ with regard to the FORs that they prefer in the one domain—as is indeed the case—then they might also differ i...

In the field of Artificial Intelligence the task of spatial language understanding is a particularly complex one. Textual spatial information is frequently represented by socalled locative expressions, incorporating spatial prepositions. However, apart from the spatial domain, these prepositions can occur in a wide range of senses (e.g., temporal, manner, cause, instrument) as well as in semant...

In this paper, we look at automatic generation of spatial descriptions in French, more particularly, selecting a spatial preposition for a pair of objects in an image. Our focus is on assessing the effect on accuracy of (i) increasing data set size, (ii) removing synonyms from the set of prepositions used for annotation, (iii) optimising feature sets, and (iv) training on best prepositions only...

Spatio-temporal prepositions like hasta ‘until’ find crucially distinct uses across Spanish varieties. In many cases, disallowed in more restrictive variants alternate nontrivially with canonical P distribution, raising pressing questions on spatiotemporal prepositions, lexicalized denotational properties, and their potential exploitation complex semantic representations. Central American varie...