Bitext-based resolution of German subject-object ambiguities

  • Authors:
  • Florian Schwarck;Alexander Fraser;Hinrich Schütze

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Stuttgart;University of Stuttgart;University of Stuttgart

  • Venue:
  • HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a method for disambiguating syntactic subjects from syntactic objects (a frequent ambiguity) in German sentences taken from an English-German bitext. We exploit the fact that subject and object are usually easily determined in English. We show that a simple method disambiguates some subject-object ambiguities in German, while making few errors. We view this procedure as the first step in automatically acquiring (mostly) correct labeled data. We also evaluate using it to improve a state of the art statistical parser.