Many NLP applications require information about locations of objects referenced in text, or relations between them in space. For example, the phrase a book on the desk contains information about the location of the object book, as trajector, with respect to another object desk, as landmark. Spatial Role Labeling (SpRL) is an evaluation task in the information extraction domain which sets a goal...

Fictive Motion is a type of figurative language used to express static visual scenes in terms of motion, for example, ”The road runs along the river” or ”The scar runs down his back”. Previous research suggests that we mentally simulate fictive motion (Matlock 2004, Matlock & Bergmann, in press), but little is known about the use of fictive motion in real discourse. Our study is the first to lo...

We examine the literature on marital discord to identify potential indicators. Welldocumented indicators are found both in the interpersonal and intra-individual realms.Personality factors and other abiding individual difference variables appear to play a rolein the development of marital discord. An integrative model is offered, highlighting thepotential for interpersonal, ...

Under what conditions do spouses have more “voice” or bargaining power to get what they want from their marriages? The objective of this research project is to explore how spouses’ economic resources affect marital bargains and outcomes. The main hypothesis is that spouses with more resources are able to strike bargains about marital roles that they perceive to be more fair and that lead to mor...