Spatial-temporal attributes in verbal semantics: A corpus-based lexical semantic study of discriminating Mandarin near synonyms of “tui1” and “la1”

Event Structure of Transitive Verb: A MARVS perspective

Module-Attribute Representation of Verbal Semantics (MARVS) is a theory of the representation of verbal semantics that is based on Mandarin Chinese data (Huang et al. 2000). In the MARVS theory, there are two different t…

Verbal Semantics as Eventive Information: The Case of Verb “制服” and “制約” in Chinese Gigaword Corpus

A Verbal and Gestural Corpus of Story Retellings to an Expressive Embodied Virtual Character

We present a corpus of 44 human-agent verbal and gestural story retellings designed to explore whether humans would gesturally entrain to an embodied intelligent virtual agent. We used a novel data collection method wher…

Natural Language and Spatial Rules

We develop a system that formally represents spatial semantics concepts within natural language descriptions of spatial arrangements. The system builds on a model of spatial semantics representation according to which wo…

A Visuospatial Dataset for Naturalistic Verb Learning

We introduce a new dataset for training and evaluating grounded language models. Our data is collected within a virtual reality environment and is designed to emulate the quality of language data to which a pre-verbal ch…