@InProceedings{alikhani-stone:2018:C18-1,
  author    = {Alikhani, Malihe  and  Stone, Matthew},
  title     = {Arrows are the Verbs of Diagrams},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {3552--3563},
  abstract  = {Arrows are a key ingredient of schematic pictorial communication. This paper investigates the interpretation of arrows through linguistic, crowdsourcing and machine-learning methodology. Our work establishes a novel analogy between arrows and verbs: we advocate representing arrows in terms of qualitatively different structural and semantic frames, and resolving frames to specific interpretations using shallow world knowledge.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1301}
}