A “Random Walk” through Prepositional Phrase Attachment
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This document surveys the field of research in preposition phrase attachment resolution, looking back at the way the problem was approached in the 1990s, as well as at modern techniques for resolving this basic syntactic ambiguity problem. Techniques are described and compared, and their effectiveness is considered.
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