@inproceedings{koper-schulte-im-walde-2014-rank,
    title = "A Rank-based Distance Measure to Detect Polysemy and to Determine Salient Vector-Space Features for {G}erman Prepositions",
    author = {K{\"o}per, Maximilian  and
      Schulte im Walde, Sabine},
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Choukri, Khalid  and
      Declerck, Thierry  and
      Loftsson, Hrafn  and
      Maegaard, Bente  and
      Mariani, Joseph  and
      Moreno, Asuncion  and
      Odijk, Jan  and
      Piperidis, Stelios",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'14)",
    month = may,
    year = "2014",
    address = "Reykjavik, Iceland",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/L14-1483/",
    pages = "4459--4466",
    abstract = "This paper addresses vector space models of prepositions, a notoriously ambiguous word class. We propose a rank-based distance measure to explore the vector-spatial properties of the ambiguous objects, focusing on two research tasks: (i) to distinguish polysemous from monosemous prepositions in vector space; and (ii) to determine salient vector-space features for a classification of preposition senses. The rank-based measure predicts the polysemy vs. monosemy of prepositions with a precision of up to 88{\%}, and suggests preposition-subcategorised nouns as more salient preposition features than preposition-subcategorising verbs."
}