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Hybrid Disambiguation of Prepositional Phrase Attachment and Interpretation

Sven Hartrumpf
1999 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing  

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In this paper, a hybrid disambiguation method for the prepositional phrase (PP) attachment and interpretation problem is presented. 1 The data needed, semantic PP interpretation rules and an annotated corpus, is described first. Then the three major steps of the disambiguation method are: explained. Cross-validated evaluation results', for German (88.6-94.4% correct for binary attachment ambiguities, 83.3-92.5% correct for interpretation ambiguities) show that disambiguation methods combining
more » ... terpretation! rules and statistical methods might yield significantly better results than nonhybrid disambiguation methods.
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Sven Hartrumpf. "Hybrid Disambiguation of Prepositional Phrase Attachment and Interpretation." Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (1999)