Statistical Models for Unsupervised Prepositional Phrase Attachment
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We present several unsupervised statistical models for the prepositional phrase attachment task that approach the accuracy of the best supervised methods for this task. Our unsupervised approach uses a heuristic based on attachment proximity and trains h'om raw text that is annotated with only part-oi;speech tags and morphologicM base forms, as opposed to attachment information. It is therefore less resource-intensive and more portable than previous corpus-based algorithm proposed for this task. We present results for prepositional phrase attachment in both English and Span-
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