  Adpositions are frequent markers of semantic relations, but they are highly
ambiguous and vary significantly from language to language. Moreover, there is
a dearth of annotated corpora for investigating the cross-linguistic variation
of adposition semantics, or for building multilingual disambiguation systems.
This paper presents a corpus in which all adpositions have been semantically
annotated in Mandarin Chinese; to the best of our knowledge, this is the first
Chinese corpus to be broadly annotated with adposition semantics. Our approach
adapts a framework that defined a general set of supersenses according to
ostensibly language-independent semantic criteria, though its development
focused primarily on English prepositions (Schneider et al., 2018). We find
that the supersense categories are well-suited to Chinese adpositions despite
syntactic differences from English. On a Mandarin translation of The Little
Prince, we achieve high inter-annotator agreement and analyze semantic
correspondences of adposition tokens in bitext.
