Bitext-Based Resolution of German Subject-Object Ambiguities

We present a method for disambiguating syntactic subjects from syntactic objects (a frequent ambiguity) in German sentences taken from an English-German bitext. We exploit the fact that subject and object are usually easily determined in English. We show that a simple method disambiguates some subjectobject ambiguities in German, while making few errors. We view this procedure as the first step in automatically acquiring (mostly) correct labeled data. We also evaluate using it to improve a state of the art statistical parser.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: NAACL
• Authors: Florian Schwarck, Alexander Fraser, Hinrich Schütze
• Keywords: Art Statistical Parser, Computational Linguistics, Correct Labeled Data, English-German Bitext, NAACL 2010