"The Semantics of Prepositions: From Mental Processing to Natural Language Processing" ed. by Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt

The volume approaches the issue first from a more general perspective, namely the extent to which insights into the meaning of prepositions give clues to the semantic structure of lexical units and its processing in general. It goes on to deal with the meaning of prepositions from the perspective of how natural language processing can benefit from the insights of theoretical linguistics, especially with respect to machine translation and image understanding.

Most of the papers were originally presented at a workshop held in February 1990 at the Institut fur Angewandte Informationsforschung.

Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Lexicalization patterns of prepositions
The Dutch spatial preposition "in": A cognitive-semantic analysis
Dividing up physical and mental space into conceptual categories by means of English prepositions
On the grammar of lexical and non-lexica I prepositions in English
Prepositions: patterns of polysem ization and strategies of disambiguation
2. Semantic categorization of prepositions and context
Prepositions and object concepts: A contribution to cognitive semantics
Semantic and conceptual aspects of the preposition durch
The meaning of German projective prepositions: A two-level approach
3. Contrastive implications of prepositions
German temporal prepositions from an English perspective
On universality and variability in the semantics of spatial adpositions
Interpreting and translating prepositions: A cognitively based formalization
4. Image understanding and prepositions
A three-level approach to the semantics of space
Computing the meaning of localization expressions involving prepositions: The role of concepts and spatial context
A contribution to reference semantics of spatial prepositions: The visualization problem and its solution in VITRA
Index