A rule-based approach to prepositional phrase attachment disambiguation

Authors:
Eric Brill;Philip Resnik
Affiliations:
M.I.T., Cambridge, Ma.;Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc., Chelmsford, MA
Venue:
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Year:
1994

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe a new corpus-based approach to prepositional phrase attachment disambiguation, and present results comparing performance of this algorithm with other corpus-based approaches to this problem.