Efficient sentence disambiguation by preferred constituent order
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چکیده
A major problem with (partially) free constituent order is to manifest preferences among structurally distinct parses of ambiguous sentences. In order to obtain scoring criteria a preferred constituent order can considerably support a bestrst strategy. This work presents an experimentally evaluated model of preferred German constituent order in the middle eld and its application for the implementation of a robust and e cient parsing strategy for spontaneous speech. This constituent order is used to guide the parallel LR(1)-parser to derive the preferred interpretation of ambiguous sentences.
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