Arrows are the Verbs of Diagrams

Malihe Alikhani, Matthew Stone


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.
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C18-1301
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3552–3563
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https://aclanthology.org/C18-1301
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Malihe Alikhani and Matthew Stone. 2018. Arrows are the Verbs of Diagrams. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3552–3563, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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