Prepositional Phrase Attachment Problem Revisited: how Verbnet can Help
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چکیده
Resolving attachment ambiguities is a pervasive problem in syntactic analysis. We propose and investigate an approach to resolving prepositional phrase attachment that centers around the ways of incorporating semantic knowledge derived from the lexico-semantic ontologies such as VERBNET and WORDNET.
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