Many of the Japanese ideographs (Chinese characters) have a few meanings. Such ambiguities should be identified by using their contextual information. For example, we have an ideo...
We present a supervised machine learning algorithm for metonymy resolution, which exploits the similarity between examples of conventional metonymy. We show that syntactic head-mo...
The real di culty in development of practical NLP systems comes from the fact that we do not have e ective means for gathering \knowledge". In this paper, we propose an algor...
Satoshi Sekine, Jeremy J. Carroll, Sophia Ananiado...
Distributions of the senses of words are often highly skewed. This fact is exploited by word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems which back off to the predominant (most frequent) s...
In this paper we revisit the classical NLP problem of prepositional phrase attachment (PPattachment). Given the pattern V −NP1−P −NP2 in the text, where V is verb, NP1 is a ...