A Neurocomputational Approach to Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguity Resolution

Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguity Resolution Using Semantic Hierarchies

This paper describes a system that resolves prepositional phrase attachment ambiguity in English sentence processing. 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 hea...

Prepositional phrase attachment ambiguity resolution using word sense hierarchies

A Rule-Based and MT-Oriented Approach to Prepositional Phrase Attachment

Prepositional Phrase is the key issue in structural ambiguity. Recently, researches in corpora provide the lexical cue of prepositions with other words and the information could be used to partly resolve ambiguity resulted from prepositional phrases. Two possible attachments are considered in the literature: either noun attachment or verb attachment. In this paper, we consider the problem from ...

A “Random Walk” through Prepositional Phrase Attachment

This document surveys the field of research in preposition phrase attachment resolution, looking back at the way the problem was approached in the 1990s, as well as at modern techniques for resolving this basic syntactic ambiguity problem. Techniques are described and compared, and their effectiveness is considered.

Disambiguation of English PP Attachment using Multilingual Aligned Data

Prepositional phrase attachment (PP attachment) is a major source of ambiguity in English. It poses a substantial challenge to Machine Translation (MT) between English and languages that are not characterized by PP attachment ambiguity. In this paper we present an unsupervised, bilingual, corpus-based approach to the resolution of English PP attachment ambiguity. As data we use aligned linguist...