NLP systems, in order to be robust, must handle novel and i l l formed input . One common type of error involves the use of non-s tandard preposit ions to mark arguments . In this paper, we argue that such errors can be handled in a systematic fashion, and that a system designed to handle them offers other advantages. We o f f e r a c lass i f i ca t ion scheme for preposi t ion usage errors. F...

Previous work has shown that the abstract use of the prepositions in and on retains spatial meaning, such as containment and support that includes the control relationship between a located object (the figure) and a reference object (the ground). We extend these ideas to the case of metaphorical descriptions of emotion in Spanish – some of them featuring the emotion as a located entity in the p...

this study was an attempt to examine the relationship between iranian efl students’ general knowledge of english and their use of english prepositions. to discover whether there was any sig- nificant relationship between efl university and high school students’ english proficiency level and their performance on a preposition test, three groups of beginning, intermediate, and upper intermediate ...

There are differing theories concerning the construction dubbed swiping by Merchant 2002. Some theories predict that the inverted preposition/wh-word order characteristic of swiping is idiosyncratic to prepositions and wh-words in particular and does not generalize to other elements. Other theories predict that swiping is merely a particular instantiation of a generalizable possibility for inve...

Some students with intellectual disabilities require explicit instruction of language skills, including preposition use; however, little is known about effective ways to teach preposition use to this population. This study examined direct instruction (DI) to teach students to use and respond to prepositions. Results indicated that DI was an effective way to teach prepositions. Limitations and d...

Prepositions are highly polysemous. Yet, little effort has been spent to develop languagespecific annotation schemata for preposition senses to systematically represent and analyze the polysemy of prepositions in large corpora. In this paper, we present an annotation schema for preposition senses in German. The annotation schema includes a hierarchical taxonomy and also allows multiple annotati...

Sense disambiguation for prepositions is used within a paraphrase recognition system. ‘With’ is chosen to explore our approach of using information from WordNet (hypernym and meronym relations) and LCS (verb lexical information); similar concepts can be used for other prepositions. This paper describes the senses of ‘with’, the disambiguation model, evaluation process, and results.