@inproceedings{sukhada-etal-2021-semantics,
    title = "Semantics of Spatio-Directional Geometric Terms of {I}ndian Languages",
    author = "Sukhada, Sukhada  and
      Soma, Paul  and
      Kumar, Rahul  and
      Puranik, Karthik",
    editor = "Bandyopadhyay, Sivaji  and
      Devi, Sobha Lalitha  and
      Bhattacharyya, Pushpak",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2021",
    address = "National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India",
    publisher = "NLP Association of India (NLPAI)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2021.icon-main.44/",
    pages = "359--368",
    abstract = "This paper examines widely prevalent yet little-studied expressions in Indian languages which are known as geometrical terms be-cause ``they engage locations along the axes of the reference object''. These terms are andara (inside), b ̄ahara (outside), ̄age (in front of), s ̄amane (in front of), p ̄{\i}che (back), ̄upara (above/over), n ̄{\i}ce (under/below), d ̄ayem. (right), b ̄ayem. (left), p ̄asa (near), d ̄ura (away/far) in Hindi. The way these terms have been interpreted by the scholars of the Hindi language and handled in the Hindi Dependency treebank is misleading. This paper proposes an alternative analysis of these terms focusing on their triple {--} nominal, modifier and relational - functions and presents abstract semantic representations of these terms following the proposed analysis. The semantic representation will be explicit, unambiguous abstract and therefore universal in nature. The correspondence of these terms in Bangla and Kannada are also identified. Disambiguation of geometric terms will facilitate parsing and machine translation especially from Indian Language to English because these geometric terms of Indian languages are variedly translated in English de-pending on context."
}