Distributional Similarity and Preposition Semantics

Using Distributional Similarity of Multi-way Translations to Predict Multiword Expression Compositionality

“…One area of particular interest with this dataset will be the robustness of the method to function words (the particles), both under translation and in terms of calculating distributional similarity, although the findings of Baldwin (2006) for English prepositions are at least encouraging in this respect. Additionally, English VPCs can occur in "split" form (e.g.…”

Prepositions in Applications: A Survey and Introduction to the Special Issue

“…Alam (2003Alam ( , 2004 used decision trees to disambiguate 12 senses of over, distinguishing between senses which are determined by their governor and those which are determined by their NP complement. Baldwin (2006) explored the interaction between preposition valence and the distributional hypothesis, based on latent semantic analysis (LSA; Deerwester et al 1990). He derived gold-standard preposition-to-preposition similarities using each of Dorr's LCS lexicon (based on the method of Resnik and Diab [2000]) and Roget's Thesaurus, and compared them to the similarities predicted by LSA, in each case using either valence specification (considering intransitive and transitive prepositions separately) or valence underspecification (considering both preposition valences together).…”

Automatic Semantic Classification of German Preposition Types: Comparing Hard and Soft Clustering Approaches across Features

“…Regarding prepositions, comparably little effort in computational semantics has gone beyond a specific choice of prepositions (such as spatial prepositions), towards a systematic classification of preposition senses, as in The Preposition Project (Litkowski and Hargraves, 2005). Distributional approaches towards preposition meaning and sense distinction have only recently started to explore salient preposition features, but with few exceptions (such as Baldwin (2006)) these approaches focused on token-based classification of preposition senses (Ye and Baldwin, 2006;O'Hara and Wiebe, 2009;Tratz and Hovy, 2009;Hovy et al, 2010;Hovy et al, 2011).…”