{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/preposition-sense-disambiguation-and","title":"Preposition Sense Disambiguation and Representation","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2018-10-01","proceeding":"EMNLP 2018 10","authors":["Hongyu Gong","Jiaqi Mu","Suma Bhat","Pramod Viswanath"],"abstract":"Prepositions are highly polysemous, and their variegated senses encode significant semantic information. In this paper we match each preposition{'}s left- and right context, and their interplay to the geometry of the word vectors to the left and right of the preposition. Extracting these features from a large corpus and using them with machine learning models makes for an efficient preposition sense disambiguation (PSD) algorithm, which is comparable to and better than state-of-the-art on two benchmark datasets. Our reliance on no linguistic tool allows us to scale the PSD algorithm to a large corpus and learn sense-specific preposition representations. The crucial abstraction of preposition senses as word representations permits their use in downstream applications{--}phrasal verb paraphrasing and preposition selection{--}with new state-of-the-art results.","url_abs":"https://aclanthology.org/D18-1180","url_pdf":"https://aclanthology.org/D18-1180.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"preposition-sense-disambiguation-and","repo_url":"https://github.com/HongyuGong/PrepositionSenseDisambiguation","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}