Prepositional phrase attachment ambiguity resolution using semantic hierarchies
Nadh, Kailash and Huyck, Christian R. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4015-3549
(2009)
Prepositional phrase attachment ambiguity resolution using semantic hierarchies.
In: Ninth IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 18th February 2009, Innsbruck.
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Abstract
This paper describes a system that resolves prepositional
phrase attachment ambiguity in English sentence process-
ing. This attachment problem is ubiquitous in English
text, and is widely known as a place where semantics
determines syntactic form. The decision is made based on
a four-tuple composed of the head verb of the verb phrase,
the head noun of the noun phrase, and the preposition
and head noun in the prepositional phrase. A corpus with
known results, the Penn Treebank, is used for training
and testing purposes. During training, known results are
used to build a lattice of hierarchical categories taken from WordNet. These lattices are then compared to the novel
lattices derived from the test four-tuples. The results of the system are 90.53% correct attachment decisions.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Keywords (uncontrolled): | Prepositional Phrase Attachment, Syntactic and Semantic ambiguity, Semantic Nets, Hierarchies, Parsing, Ambiguity Resolution |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer and Communications Engineering |
| Item ID: | 2471 |
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| Depositing User: | Mr Kailash Nadh |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2009 10:43 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jun 2021 14:59 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/2471 |
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