A Nearest-Neighbor Method for Resolving PP-Attachment Ambiguity
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We present a nearest-neighbor algorithm for resolving prepositional phrase attachment ambiguities. Its performance is significantly higher than previous corpus-based methods for PP-attachment that do not rely on manually constructed knowledge bases. We will also show that the PP-attachment task provides a way to evaluate methods for computing distributional word similarities. Our experiments indicate that the cosine of pointwise mutual information vector is a significantly better similarity measure than several other commonly used similarity measures.
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A Nearest-Neighbor Method for Resolving PP-Attachment Ambiguity
We present a nearest-neighbor algorithm for resolving prepositional phrase attachment ambiguities. Its performance is significantly higher than previous methods that were tested on the same data set. We will also show that the PP-attachment task provides a way to evaluate measures of distributional word similarities. Our experiments indicate that the cosine of pointwise mutual information vecto...
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