Semantic classes and syntactic ambiguity

Authors:
Philip Resnik
Affiliations:
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Venue:
HLT '93 Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology
Year:
1993

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Abstract

In this paper we propose to define selectional preference and semantic similarity as information-theoretic relationships involving conceptual classes, and we demonstrate the applicability of these definitions to the resolution of syntactic ambiguity. The space of classes is defined using WordNet [8], and conceptual relationships are determined by means of statistical analysis using parsed text in the Penn Treebank.