We have developed a method to resolve ambiguities in prepositional phrase (PP) attachment in German. We measure on the one hand the cooccurrence strength between nouns (N) and pre...
We present a nearest-neighbor algorithm for resolving prepositional phrase attachment ambiguities. Its performance is significantly higher than previous corpus-based methods for P...
Counts from large corpora (like the web) can be powerful syntactic cues. Past work has used web counts to help resolve isolated ambiguities, such as binary noun-verb PP attachment...
We demonstrate that an unlexicalized PCFG can parse much more accurately than previously shown, by making use of simple, linguistically motivated state splits, which break down fa...