Selection and information: a class-based approach to lexical relationships
Selection and information: a class-based approach to lexical relationships
Computational Methods for Intelligent Information Access
Supercomputing '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Languages
Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Languages
A Trainable Bracketer for Noun Modifiers
AI '98 Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Lexical semantic techniques for corpus analysis
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
Noun-phrase analysis in unrestricted text for information retrieval
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Information retrieval using robust natural language processing
ACL '92 Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Parsing noun phrases in the penn treebank
Computational Linguistics
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Noun compounds are a frequently occurring yet highly ambiguous construction in natural language; their interpretation relies on extra-syntactic information. Several statistical methods for compound disambiguation have been reported in the literature; however, a striking feature of all these approaches is that disambiguation relies on statistics derived from unambiguous compounds in training, meaning they are prone to the problem of sparse data. Other researchers have overcome this difficulty somewhat by using manually crafted knowledge resources to collect statistics on "concepts" rather than noun tokens, but have sacrificed domain-independence by doing so. We report here on work investigating the application of Latent Semantic Indexing [4], an Information Retrieval technique, to the task of noun compound disambiguation. We achieved an accuracy of 84%, indicating the potential of applying vector-based distributional information measures to syntactic disambiguation.