Spatial relation marking across languages: extraction, evaluation, analysis

Barend Beekhuizen


Abstract
This paper presents a novel task, detecting Spatial Relation Markers (SRMs, like English _**in** the bag_), across languages, alongside a model for this task, RUIMTE. Using a massively parallel corpus of Bible translations, the model is evaluated against existing and baseline models on the basis of a novel evaluation set. The model presents high quality SRM extraction, and an accurate identification of situations where language have zero-marked SRMs.
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2025.conll-1.37
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Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Gemma Boleda, Michael Roth
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CoNLL | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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571–585
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Barend Beekhuizen. 2025. Spatial relation marking across languages: extraction, evaluation, analysis. In Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 571–585, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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