Annotating Spatial Interpretations of German Prepositions

Abstract

Traditional approaches to prepositions classify preposition lexemes into different semantic classes like spatial, temporal or modal ones. In this paper we reconsider the so-called spatial prepositions and their sub classification. We propose a sense based classification of prepositions using traditional criteria to determine different classes of spatial-preposition interpretations. Our work on spatial preposition senses is part of a bigger project of developing an annotation scheme for a subset of German prepositions.