Right Association Revisited

Consideration of when Right Association works and when it fails lead to a restatement of this parsing principle in terms of the notion of heaviness. A computational investigation of a syntactically annotated corpus provides evidence for this proposal and suggest circumstances when RA is likely to make correct attachment predictions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1992
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Michael Niv
• Keywords: ACL 1992, ACL 2007, Corpus Provides Evidence, Correct Attachment Predictions, Right Association Works