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 ...
Conventional methods for disambiguation problems have been using statistical methods with co-occurrence of words in their contexts. It seems that human-beings assign appropriate w...
Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques have been used in Information Retrieval. The results are not encouraging. Simple methods (stopwording, porter-style stemming, etc...
In this paper we exploit Semantic Vectors to develop an IR system. The idea is to use semantic spaces built on terms and documents to overcome the problem of word ambiguity. Word ...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semera...
This paper presents a supervised method for resolving metonymies. We enhance a commonly used feature set with features extracted based on collocation information from corpora, gen...