@InProceedings{peng-EtAl:2020:LREC,
  author    = {Peng, Siyao  and  Liu, Yang  and  Zhu, Yilun  and  Blodgett, Austin  and  Zhao, Yushi  and  Schneider, Nathan},
  title     = {A Corpus of Adpositional Supersenses for Mandarin Chinese},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  month          = {May},
  year           = {2020},
  address        = {Marseille, France},
  publisher      = {European Language Resources Association},
  pages     = {5986--5994},
  abstract  = {Adpositions are frequent markers of semantic relations, but they are highly ambiguous and vary significantly from language to language. Moreover, there is a dearth of annotated corpora for investigating the cross-linguistic variation of adposition semantics, or for building multilingual disambiguation systems. This paper presents a corpus in which all adpositions have been semantically annotated in Mandarin Chinese; to the best of our knowledge, this is the first Chinese corpus to be broadly annotated with adposition semantics. Our approach adapts a framework that defined a general set of supersenses according to ostensibly language-independent semantic criteria, though its development focused primarily on English prepositions (Schneider et al., 2018). We find that the supersense categories are well-suited to Chinese adpositions despite syntactic differences from English. On a Mandarin translation of The Little Prince, we achieve high inter-annotator agreement and analyze semantic correspondences of adposition tokens in bitext.},
  url       = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.733}
}