Computer Science – Computation and Language
Scientific paper
1997-10-16
Computer Science
Computation and Language
7 pages, appeared in the EMNLP-2 proceedings
Scientific paper
There has recently been considerable interest in the use of lexically-based statistical techniques to resolve prepositional phrase attachments. To our knowledge, however, these investigations have only considered the problem of attaching the first PP, i.e., in a [V NP PP] configuration. In this paper, we consider one technique which has been successfully applied to this problem, backed-off estimation, and demonstrate how it can be extended to deal with the problem of multiple PP attachment. The multiple PP attachment introduces two related problems: sparser data (since multiple PPs are naturally rarer), and greater syntactic ambiguity (more attachment configurations which must be distinguished). We present and algorithm which solves this problem through re-use of the relatively rich data obtained from first PP training, in resolving subsequent PP attachments.
Berthouzoz Cathy
Crocker Matthew
Merlo Paola
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