Structural ambiguity and lexical relations

  • Authors:
  • Donald Hindle;Mats Rooth

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ;AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

  • Venue:
  • ACL '91 Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

We propose that ambiguous prepositional phrase attachment can be resolved on the basis of the relative strength of association of the preposition with noun and verb, estimated on the basis of word distribution in a large corpus. This work suggests that a distributional approach can be effective in resolving parsing problems that apparently call for complex reasoning.