Double Trouble: The Problem of Construal in Semantic Annotation of Adpositions
- Jena D. Hwang (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition)
- Archna Bhatia (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition)
- Na-Rae Han (University of Pittsburgh)
- Tim O\'Gorman (University of Colorado Boulder)
- Vivek Srikumar (University of Utah)
- Nathan Schneider (Georgetown University)
Abstract
We consider the semantics of prepositions, revisiting a broad-coverage annotation scheme used for annotating all preposition tokens in a 55,000-word corpus of English. In an attempt to resolve problematic cases in English and apply the scheme to adpositions and case markers in other languages, we reconsider the assumption that an adposition’s lexical contribution is equivalent to the role/relation that it mediates, embracing the potential for construal to manage complexity and avoid sense proliferation. We suggest a framework to represent both the scene role and the adposition\'s lexical function, and discuss how it would allow for a simpler inventory of labels.
Keywords: adpositions, lexical semantics, polysemy, annotation schemes
How to Cite:
Hwang, J. D., Bhatia, A., Han, N., O\'Gorman, T., Srikumar, V. & Schneider, N., (2018) “Double Trouble: The Problem of Construal in Semantic Annotation of Adpositions”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 1(1), 217-218. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/R5Z899M6
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