Prepositions name spatial relationships (e.g., book on a table). But they are also used to convey abstract, non-spatial relationships (e.g., Adrian is on a roll)-raising the question of how the abstract uses relate to the concrete spatial uses. Despite considerable success in delineating these relationships, no general account exists for the two most frequently extended prepositions: in and on....

This paper present the treatment of prepositions and conjunctionsinnatural languageinterfacestodatabases(NLIDB)thatallowsbetter translation of queries expressed in natural language into formal languages. Prepositions and conjunctionsweren’t sufficiently studied for their usage in NLIDBs,becausemostoftheNLIDBsjust lookforkeywordsinthesentences and focus their analysis on nouns and verbs getting ...

This paper presents ideas for formally representing and working with prepositions as stand-alone constructs in connection with nouns and verbs, as prefixes, and as connecting constituents in compounds. As main starting points serve (a) Davis’ proto(typical) roles for linking subject and complements of verbs with semantic roles in HPSG, (b) Pustejovsky’s generative lexicon theory, and (c) Cyc’s ...

We present an unsupervised approach that can be applied to test corrections tasks such as real-word error correction, near-synonym choice, and preposition choice, using n-grams from the Google Web 1T dataset. We present in details the method for correcting preposition errors, which has two phases. We categorize the n-gram types based on the position of the gap that needs to be replaced with a p...

Incorrect usage of prepositions and determiners constitute the most common types of errors made by non-native speakers of English. It is not surprising, then, that there has been a significant amount of work directed towards the automated detection and correction of such errors. However, to date, the use of different data sets and different task definitions has made it difficult to compare work...

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This paper deals with issues that a bidirectional GermanRussian machine translation system faces when the meaning of spatial prepositions in these languages does not line up. A uniform representation language is used to define the meaning of spatial prepositions in a language independent way. This formal language makes it possible to compare monolingual meaning representations and allows for th...