The 4th ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Thursday 28th June, 2007

2:30–2:45Opening Remarks
 Session 1: Prepositions in Space
2:45–3:10A Corpus-Based Analysis of Geometric Constraints on Projective Prepositions
Christian Hying
3:10–3:35Landmark Classification for Route Directions
Aidan Furlan, Timothy Baldwin and Alex Klippel
3:35–4:00Coffee break
 Session 2: Prepositions in Language
4:00–4:25PrepLex: A Lexicon of French Prepositions for Parsing
Karën Fort and Bruno Guillaume
4:25–4:50Detection of Grammatical Errors Involving Prepositions
Martin Chodorow, Joel Tetreault and Na-Rae Han
4:50–5:15Measuring the Productivity of Determinerless PPs
Florian Dömges, Tibor Kiss, Antje Müller and Claudia Roch
5:15–5:20Break
 Session 3: Short talks
5:20–5:40Inferring the Semantics of Temporal Prepositions in Italian
Tommaso Caselli and Valeria Quochi
5:40–6:00Automatically Acquiring Models of Preposition Use
Rachele De Felice and Stephen Pulman
6:00–6:20Simple Preposition Correspondence: A Problem in English to Indian Language Machine Translation
Samar Husain, Dipti Misra Sharma and Manohar Reddy
6:20–6:30Closing Remarks