@inproceedings{viechnicki-kostacos-2025-parablocc,
    title = "{P}ara{BL}o{CC}: Parallel Basic Locative Constructions Corpus",
    author = "Viechnicki, Peter  and
      Kostacos, Anthony",
    editor = "Kuribayashi, Tatsuki  and
      Rambelli, Giulia  and
      Takmaz, Ece  and
      Wicke, Philipp  and
      Li, Jixing  and
      Oh, Byung-Doh",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.cmcl-1.4/",
    pages = "18--23",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-227-5",
    abstract = "We introduce ParaBLoCC, the Parallel Basic Locative Construction Corpus, the first multilingual compendium of this important grammatico-functional construction, and particularly the first such corpus containing semantically equivalent BLCs in source/target language pairs. The data {--} taken from bitext corpora in English paired with twenty-six typologically diverse languages {--} are likely to prove useful for studying questions of cognitive underpinnings and cross-linguistic usage patterns of spatial expressions, as well as for improving multilingual spatial relation extraction and related tasks. The data are being made available at https://github.com/pviechnicki/parablocc."
}