Improving prepositional phrase attachment disambiguation using the web as corpus

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Abstract

The problem of Prepositional Phrase (PP) attachment disambiguation consists in determining if a PP is part of a noun phrase, as in He sees the room with books, or an argument of a verb, as in He fills the room with books. Volk has proposed two variants of a method that queries an Internet search engine to find the most probable attachment variant. In this paper we apply the latest variant of Volk s method to Spanish with several differences that allow us to attain a better performance close to that of statistical methods using treebanks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsAlberto Sanfeliu, Jose Ruiz-Shulcloper
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages604-610
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)354020590X, 9783540205906
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2905
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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