The Pattern Dictionary of English Prepositions (PDEP) is modeled on the Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (PDEV). PDEV is based on Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA), a procedure in corpus linguistics that associates word meaning with word use by means of analysis of phraseological patterns and collocations. The focus of the analysis is on the prototypical […]

Recently, I made a request on the ACL SIGLEX mailing list for tools that might help in analyzing preposition lexical samples. In this request, I indicated a need for software that would specifically provide enhanced word sketch analysis. I only received a couple of replies, one of which asked what I meant by this term. […]

In The Preposition Project (TPP), each sense was assigned a semantic relation type by the lexicographer. These types were grouped together into 20 larger classes. The assignment of these two labels was a local decision, that is, without any a priori theoretical perspective. Once completed, the overall collection of these classifications are amenable to more […]

Efforts to disambiguate prepositions have been increasing in the last few years, with claims of precision reaching 0.80. All such efforts present results in statistical generalities, with identification of the key factors related to the results. Continued progress in these efforts requires a close examination of limitations that have been noted. In addition, the exploitation […]