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A Hierarchy with, of, and for Preposition Supersenses

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English prepositions are frequent and very polysemous, and in many uses they mark a role rather than a place or time. The authors propose a hierarchical taxonomy of preposition supersenses: coarse, unlexicalised categories for the function a preposition marks (spatial, temporal, purpose, configuration and so on). The taxonomy is built from the fine-grained senses of The Preposition Project (TPP), with 34 prepositions and 332 fine senses. Of these, 285 map to one or more supersenses, and the resource grows to 309 preposition types and 797 senses. The paper gives the definitions, examples and mappings to other resources. The earlier TPP coarse grouping had a Cohen's kappa of 0.75, and a pilot English annotation of the taxonomy is reported as underway.

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The touch points are en/src/expert.rs (rules), en/src/tok.rs (multiword units), en/src/parse.rs (governor), and world/src/frames.rs (verb frames). The chapter is 22. Phrases: noun, adjective, adverb and prepositional phrases, with 23. Complementation for selected prepositions and 21. The simple clause. The paper's data is NC-licensed; it is used for tests, and the taxonomy and its definitions are the part to re-use. Measure first the rule table on the top prepositions against EWT.

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The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.3115/v1/w15-1612

@inproceedings{schneider2015hierarchy,
  title = {{A Hierarchy with, of, and for Preposition Supersenses}},
  author = {Schneider, Nathan and Srikumar, Vivek and Hwang, Jena D. and Palmer, Martha},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop},
  year = {2015},
  doi = {10.3115/v1/w15-1612},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/w15-1612}
}

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