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Spatial lexicalization in the translation of prepositional phrases [PDF]

Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1992
A pattern in the translation of locative prepositional phrases between English and Spanish is presented. A way of exploiting this pattern is proposed in the context of a multilingual machine translation system under development.
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Semantic categories underlying the meaning of ‘place’ [PDF]

, 2007
This paper analyses the semantics of natural language expressions that are associated with the intuitive notion of ‘place’. We note that the nature of such terms is highly contested, and suggest that this arises from two main considerations: 1) there are
B. Bennett, B. Bennett, B. Bennett, B. Bennett, B. Russell, B. Smith, D. Canter, D. Canter, D. Massey, D.A. Randell, E. Relph, J.N. Entrikin, M. Donnelly, N. Thrift, P. Agarwal, P. Agarwal, P. Agarwal, S. Harrison, Y.-F. Tuan   +18 more
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A Classification Schema for Fast Disambiguation of Spatial Prepositions [PDF]

Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming, 2015
In the field of Artificial Intelligence the task of spatial language understanding is a particularly complex one. Textual spatial information is frequently represented by so-called locative expressions, incorporating spatial prepositions. However, apart from the spatial domain, these prepositions can occur in a wide range of senses (e.g., temporal ...
André Dittrich, Maria Vasardani, Stephan Winter 0001, Timothy Baldwin, Fei Liu 0023   +4 more
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Between exonormative traditions and local acceptance: A corpus-linguistic study of modals of obligation and spatial prepositions in spoken Ugandan English

Open Linguistics, 2022
Research into Ugandan English places it in the nativisation phase of the evolution of Englishes, amidst a nexus of local acceptance with ingredients of endonormativity and ingrained exonormative traditions.
Isingoma Bebwa, Meierkord Christiane
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Semantic and pragmatic motivations for constructional preferences: a corpus-based study of provide, supply, and present [PDF]

, 2011
A select group of transfer verbs can enter into four different constructions: the ditransitive construction (He provided John the money), the prepositional-dative construction (He provided the money to John), a construction with a prepositional theme (He
De Clerck, Bernard, Delorge, Martine, Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie   +2 more
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Vocabulary of Autistic Preschool Children With Limited Language: Alignment With Early Word Inventories

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a critical need to understand the early vocabulary of young children with autism who have limited language, defined in this study as producing fewer than 20 different spontaneous and functional spoken or augmented words, to better inform educational targets and vocabulary selection for spoken as well as augmentative and alternative ...
Eunji Kong, Yitong Jiang, Marina Crain, Wenjing Bao, Lynne Levato, Wendy Shih, Connie Kasari, Stephanie Shire   +7 more
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Profiling a set of personality traits of text author: what our words reveal about us [PDF]

, 2016
Authorship profiling, i.e. revealing information about an unknown author by analyzing their text, is a task of growing importance. One of the most urgent problems of authorship profiling (AP) is selecting text parameters which may correlate to an author ...
Litvinova, Olga, Litvinova, Tatiana, Seredin, Pavel, Zagorovskaya, Olga   +3 more
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On the polysemy of Spanish spatial Ps

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2016
The goal of this paper is to investigate the polysemy of Spanish spatial prepositions (a, en, hacia, among others), and offer a syntactic and semantic treatment of this phenomenon.
Francesco Ursini, Adriano Giannella
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Seeing What You're Told: Sentence-Guided Activity Recognition In Video [PDF]

, 2014
We present a system that demonstrates how the compositional structure of events, in concert with the compositional structure of language, can interplay with the underlying focusing mechanisms in video action recognition, thereby providing a medium, not ...
Barbu, Andrei, Siddharth, N., Siskind, Jeffrey Mark   +2 more
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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