@InProceedings{hwang-EtAl:2017:starSEM,
  author    = {Hwang, Jena D.  and  Bhatia, Archna  and  Han, Na-Rae  and  O'Gorman, Tim  and  Srikumar, Vivek  and  Schneider, Nathan},
  title     = {Double Trouble: The Problem of Construal in Semantic Annotation of Adpositions},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017)},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Vancouver, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {178--188},
  abstract  = {We consider the semantics of prepositions, revisiting a broad-coverage
	annotation scheme used for annotating all 4,250 preposition tokens in a 55,000
	word corpus of English. Attempts to apply the scheme to adpositions and case
	markers in other languages, as well as some problematic cases in English, have
	led us to reconsider the assumption that an adposition’s lexical contribution
	is equivalent to the role/relation that it mediates. Our proposal is to embrace
	the potential for construal in adposition use, expressing such phenomena
	directly at the token level to manage complexity and avoid sense proliferation.
	We suggest a framework to represent both the scene role and the adposition’s
	lexical function so they can be annotated at scale—supporting automatic,
	statistical processing of domain-general language—and discuss how this
	representation would allow for a simpler inventory of labels.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/S17-1022}
}