Applying Constraints derived from the Context in the process of Incremental Sortal Specification of German ung-Nominalizations
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Many German nominalizations with the affix -ung are sortally ambiguous. Within a sentence, lexico-semantic and/or syntactic phenomena may support disambiguation. The sortal interpretation of a nominalization may vary depending on the underlying syntactic analysis of one and the same, syntactically ambiguous sentence. We model the process of sortal disambiguation as a constraint-based incremental process. The process is incremental as it evaluates in subsequent steps constraints from increasingly larger context windows.
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