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[Norbert E. Fuchs]

On 16 Feb 2012, at 8:33 , shruti sugunan wrote:

>     somehow prepositions is not working properly...
> when im trying....
> X is used instead of Y.
> X is used alongwith Y.
> X is in trouble because of Y.
> X is used in place of Y......it is giving error!

These prepositions are not in the lexicon, while 

> however,sentences like,
> X is used with Y.
> X is married to Y....are working perfectly fine.

these are.

> Although im using prepositions such as with,alongwith,instead-of,because-of......
> what could be the problem?

You need to define the additional prepositions in the lexicon. 

See the document http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/docs/ace_lexicon.html

Best regards.

Norbert E. Fuchs
Department of Informatics & Institute of Computational Linguistics
University of Zurich