A corpus-based analysis of geometric constraints on projective prepositions

  • Authors:
  • Christian Hying

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SigSem '07 Proceedings of the Fourth ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents a corpus-based method for automatic evaluation of geometric constraints on projective prepositions. The method is used to find an appropriate model of geometric constraints for a two-dimensional domain. Two simple models are evaluated against the uses of projective prepositions in a corpus of natural language dialogues to find the best parameters of these models. Both models cover more than 96% of the data correctly. An extra treatment of negative uses of projective prepositions (e.g. A is not above B) improves both models getting close to full coverage.