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The semantics of prepositions : from mental processing to natural language processing / edited by Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Natural language processing ; 3.
- Natural language processing ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Prepositions--Congresses.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Semantics--Congresses.
- Semantics.
- Cognitive grammar--Congresses.
- Cognitive grammar.
- Computational linguistics--Congresses.
- Computational linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 526 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2011
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A reconsideration of the semantics of a lexical category--prepositions--that has recently witnessed a plethora of investigations. The volume approaches the issue first from a more general perspective, namely the extent to which insights into the meaning of prepositions give clues to the semantic structure of lexical units and its processing in general. It goes on to deal with the meaning of prepositions from the perspective of how natural language processing can benefit from the insights of theoretical linguistics, especially with respect to machine translation and image understanding. Most of the papers were originally presented at a workshop held in February 1990 at the Institut fur Angewandte Informationsforschung. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface / Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia
- Contents
- Introduction / Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia
- 1. Lexicalization patterns of prepositions
- The Dutch spatial preposition "in": A cognitive-semantic analysis / Cuyckens, Hubert
- Dividing up physical and mental space into conceptual categories by means of English prepositions / Dirven, René
- On the grammar of lexical and non-lexical prepositions in English / Rauh, Gisa
- Prepositions: patterns of polysemization and strategies of disambiguation / Taylor, John R.
- 2. Semantic categorization of prepositions and context
- Prepositions and object concepts: A contribution to cognitive semantics / Hottenroth, Priska-Monika
- Semantic and conceptual aspects of the preposition durch / Kaufmann, Ingrid
- The meaning of German projective prepositions: A two-level approach / Lang, Ewald
- 3. Contrastive implications of prepositions
- German temporal prepositions from an English perspective / Durrell, Martin / Brée, David
- On universality and variability in the semantics of spatial adpositions / Hawkins, Bruce W.
- Interpreting and translating prepositions: A cognitively based formalization / Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia
- 4. Image understanding and prepositions
- A three-level approach to the semantics of space / Aurnague, Michel / Vieu, Laure
- Computing the meaning of localization expressions involving prepositions: The role of concepts and spatial context / Pribbenow, Simone
- A contribution to reference semantics of spatial prepositions: The visualization problem and its solution in VITRA / Schirra, Jörg R. J.
- Index
- Notes:
- Most papers were presented at a workshop held Feb. 1990 at the Institut fur Angewandte Informationsforschung.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783110872576
- 3110872579
- OCLC:
- 979748149
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